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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπισπάω“draw the foreskin foreward”
- English todayepispasm
From Ancient Greek ἐπισπάω (epispáō, “draw the foreskin foreward”), from σπάω (spáō).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
epispasm
Today it means: A form of foreskin restoration to reverse circumcision, historically practised among some Jews in Hellenistic and Roman societies. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἐπισπάω