The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκατάληψις“act of seizing”
- English todaycatalepsy
From Ancient Greek κατάληψις (katálēpsis, “act of seizing”), from καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “to seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”). By surface analysis, cata- + -lepsy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.