The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἀνόρεκτος“without appetite”
- English todayanorectic
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνόρεκτος (anórektos, “without appetite”), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὀρέγω (orégō, “to desire”). By surface analysis, an- + orectic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.