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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνάκρουσις“pushing up”
- English todayanacrusis
Via New Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνάκρουσις (anákrousis, “pushing up”), from ἀνακρούω (anakroúō, “I push up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + κρούω (kroúō, “I strike”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.