The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromδὶς λεγόμενον“(something) said only twice”
- English todaydis legomenon
From Ancient Greek δὶς λεγόμενον (dìs legómenon, “(something) said only twice”), from δίς (dís, “twice, doubly, again”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.