The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔνεμα“injection”
- Late Latin · learned borrowing fromenema
- English todayenema
Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.