The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνακαθαρτικός“to cleanse upward, i.e. by vomiting”
- English todayanacathartic
From Ancient Greek ἀνακαθαρτικός (anakathartikós, “to cleanse upward, i.e. by vomiting”). See cathartic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.