The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπίτασις“stretching”
- English todayepitasis
From Ancient Greek ἐπίτασις (epítasis, “stretching”), from ἐπιτείνω (epiteínō, “to stretch”), from ἐπί (epí) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.