The story
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*dwís
- Ancient Greekδιά (diá)
- Ancient Greekδῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
- Proto-Indo-European*terh₁-
- Ancient Greekτρῑ́βω (trī́bō)
- Ancient Greekδῐᾰτρῑ́βω (dĭătrī́bō)
- Ancient Greekδιατριβή (diatribḗ)
- Latindiatriba
- Frenchdiatribe
- English todaydiatribe
First attested 1581, borrowed from French diatribe, from Latin diatriba (“learned discussion or discourse”), from Ancient Greek διατριβή (diatribḗ, “way of spending time, lecture”), from διά (diá, “through”) + τρίβω (tríbō, “to waste, wear out”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.