The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀφωνία“speechlessness”
- New Latin · learned borrowing fromaphōnia
- English todayaphonia
Learned borrowing from New Latin aphōnia, from Ancient Greek ἀφωνία (aphōnía, “speechlessness”). By surface analysis, a- + -phonia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.