The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀμαύρωσις“dimming, obscuring, amaurosis”
- New Latin · borrowed fromamaurōsis
- English todayamaurosis
Borrowed from New Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀμαύρωσις (amaúrōsis, “dimming, obscuring, amaurosis”), from ᾰ̓μαυρόω (ămauróō, “to grow dim”), from ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dim”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.