The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἀνάσταλτικός“fitted for checking or halting”
- English todayanastaltic
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάσταλτικός (anástaltikós, “fitted for checking or halting”), from ἀνά (aná, “back”) + στέλλειν (stéllein, “send”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.