The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἔκφρασις“description”
- English todayekphrasis
From Ancient Greek ἔκφρασις (ékphrasis, “description”), from ἐκφράζω (ekphrázō, “I describe”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, ex-”) + φράζω (phrázō, “I explain, point out”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.