The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔκλᾰμψῐς“sudden development, violent onset”
- French · derived froméclampsie
- New Latin · borrowed fromeclampsia
- English todayeclampsia
Borrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklămpsĭs, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklắmpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.