The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἀποτελεσματικός
- English todayapotelesmatic
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποτελεσματικός (apotelesmatikós), from ἀποτέλεσμα (apotélesma, “effect of the stars on human destiny”). Morphologically, from apotelesm + -atic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.