The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἄφεσις“letting go”
- English todayaphesis
Attested since 1880. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄφεσις (áphesis, “letting go”), from ἀφίημι (aphíēmi), from ἀπο- (apo-, “off”) + ἵημι (híēmi, “send forth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.