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- Ancient Greekὁρμή (hormḗ)
- Ancient Greekὁρμῶν (hormôn)
- English todayhormone
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.