The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἀμφιδέα“anything that binds or is bound around”
- English todayamphid
From Ancient Greek ἀμφιδέα (amphidéa, “anything that binds or is bound around”), from ἀμφιδέω (amphidéō, “to bind around”) + -ᾱ (-ā, action noun suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.