The story
- Latin · borrowed fromfulcrum“bedpost, foot of a couch”
- English todayfulcrum
Borrowed from Latin fulcrum (“bedpost, foot of a couch”), from fulciō (“prop up, support”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
fulcrum
Today it means: The support about which a lever pivots. Full definition →
Latin fulcrum