The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀπόζεμα“to extract by boiling”
- Latin · borrowed fromapozema
- English todayapozem
From Latin apozema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόζεμα (apózema, “to extract by boiling”), from the root ζέω (zéō, “to boil, seethe”), q. v.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.