The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἔρεισις“lifting, bracing against, propping up”
- English todayarthroereisis
From arthro- + Ancient Greek ἔρεισις (éreisis, “lifting, bracing against, propping up”), from ἐρείδω (ereídō, “lift, prop up, brace”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.