The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκᾰκοζηλία“unhappy imitation, affectation”
- Latin · borrowed fromcacozēlia“a bad, faulty, awkward imitation”
- English todaycacozelia
From Latin cacozēlia (“a bad, faulty, awkward imitation”), from Ancient Greek κᾰκοζηλία (kăkozēlía, “unhappy imitation, affectation”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.