The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγνωμικός
- French · borrowed fromgnomique
- English todaygnomic
From French gnomique, ultimately from Ancient Greek γνωμικός (gnōmikós), from γνώμη (gnṓmē, “thought, judgement”), akin to γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “know”). By surface analysis, gnome + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.