The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνάπτυχος“unfolding”
- New Latin · borrowed fromanaptychus
- English todayanaptychus
From New Latin anaptychus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπτυχος (anáptukhos, “unfolding”), from ἀναπτύσσω (anaptússō, “to unfold”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.