The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκατά“down”
- English todaycataplerosis
From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”) + πλήρωσις (plḗrōsis), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to fill”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκατά all →
katacatacombcata-catachronismcatafalquecataglottismkata thermometerkatelectrotonus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.