The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκέντησις“the act of pricking”
- English todaycentesis
From Ancient Greek κέντησις (kéntēsis, “the act of pricking”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “I prick”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκέντησις all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.