The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχειραψίᾱ“massage”
- English todaychirapsia
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek χειραψίᾱ (kheirapsíā, “massage”), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἅψις (hápsis, “contact, touching”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to touch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.