The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστηρίζω“make fast, fix, support”
- English todayasterixis
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek α- (a-, “not”) + στήριξις (stḗrixis, “fixed position”) from Ancient Greek στηρίζω (stērízō, “make fast, fix, support”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.