The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔνθεος“possessed by a god”
- English todayenthuse
First attested from 1827. Back-formation from enthusiasm, from Ancient Greek ἔνθεος (éntheos, “possessed by a god”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”)
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἔνθεος all →
enthealentheate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.