The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγυμνοσοφιστής
- Latin · derived fromgymnosophista
- French · borrowed fromgymnosophiste
- English todaygymnosophist
Borrowed from French gymnosophiste, from Latin gymnosophista, from Ancient Greek γυμνοσοφιστής (gumnosophistḗs), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “sophist”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.