The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδῐᾰφόρησῐς“evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromdiaphorēsis
- English todaydiaphoresis
Borrowed from Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (dĭăphórēsĭs, “evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”); by surface analysis, dia- (“through, across”) + -phoresis (“transmission”); also synchronically held to end in the suffix -esis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.