The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀλφός“dull white, used for some leprosy, psoriasis, etc.”
- Latin · borrowed fromalphos
- English todayalphos
From Latin alphos, from Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “dull white, used for some leprosy, psoriasis, etc.”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.