The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπίπληξις“rebuke”
- Latin · derived fromepiplexis“rebuke”
- English todayepiplexis
From Latin epiplexis (“rebuke”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίπληξις (epíplēxis, “rebuke”), from ἐπιπλήσσω (epiplḗssō, “to chastise”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) (see epi-) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.