The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβλάσφημος“uttering ill-omened words”
- Latin · borrowed fromblasphēmus“blaspheming”
- English todayblasphemous
From Latin blasphēmus (“blaspheming”), from Ancient Greek βλάσφημος (blásphēmos, “uttering ill-omened words”), equivalent to blaspheme + -ous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.