The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἀνεύρυσμα“a widening, a dilation”
- English todayaneurysm
From Ancient Greek ἀνεύρυσμα (aneúrusma, “a widening, a dilation”), from ἀνευρύνω (aneurúnō, “to dilate”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + εὐρύς (eurús, “wide”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.