The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔκτοπος“away from a place”
- New Latin · learned borrowing fromectopia
- English todayectopia
Learned borrowing from New Latin ectopia, derived from Ancient Greek ἔκτοπος (éktopos, “away from a place”), from ἐκ- (ek-) + τόπος (tópos). By surface analysis, ec- + -topia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.