The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκατηχητικός
- Latin · learned borrowing fromcatēchēticus
- English todaycatechetics
Learned borrowing from Latin catēchēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατηχητικός (katēkhētikós), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “catechize”).
Words from the same roots
Latincatēchēticus all →
catechetic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.