The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνάπαιστος“struck back, reversed [relative to dactyl]”
- Latin · borrowed fromanapaestus
- English todayanapest
From Latin anapaestus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos, “struck back, reversed [relative to dactyl]”), from ἀνά (aná, “back”) + παίω (paíō, “to strike”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.