homily

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὁμῑλίᾱ“homily; instruction”
2. Late Latin · derived fromhomīlia“homily”
3. Old French · derived fromomelie
4. Middle English · inherited fromomelī
5. English todayhomily

From Middle English omelī, omelīe, omelye, from Old French omelie and directly from Late Latin homīlia (“homily”), from Ancient Greek ὁμῑλίᾱ (homīlíā, “homily; instruction”), from ὅμῑλος (hómīlos, “crowd, throng”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming abstract feminine nouns). ὅμῑλος is derived from ὁμός (homós, “common; same”) + ῑ̓́λη (ī́lē, “crowd”) (from εἴλω (eílō, “to aggregate”)).