The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπίθεμα“lid, cover”
- New Latin · borrowed fromepithema
- English todayepithema
From New Latin epithema, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθεμα (epíthema, “lid, cover”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἐπίθεμα all →
epithem
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.