The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβηχικός“of or for a cough”
- Latin · borrowed frombēchicus“of or for a cough”
- French · derived frombéchique
- English todaybechic
From French béchique or its source Latin bēchicus (“of or for a cough”), from Ancient Greek βηχικός (bēkhikós, “of or for a cough”), from βηχ- (bēkh-), oblique stem of βήξ (bḗx, “cough”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.