The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀκριβής“exact, accurate, precise”
- German · derived fromakribisch“meticulous”
- English todayacribic
From German akribisch (“meticulous”) or its etymon Ancient Greek ἀκριβής (akribḗs, “exact, accurate, precise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.