The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀποκατάστασις“restoration, reëstablishment”
- Latin · learned borrowing fromapocatastasis
- English todayapocatastasis
Learned borrowing from Latin apocatastasis, itself from Ancient Greek ἀποκατάστασις (apokatástasis, “restoration, reëstablishment”), from ἀποκαθίστημι (apokathístēmi, “to stand up again”), from ἀπό- (apó-, “back again”) + καθίστημι (kathístēmi, “to set, place, constitute, appoint”), from κατά- (katá-, “down, for”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to set, stand, establish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.