The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὑπερβατόν“overstepping”
- Latin · borrowed fromhyperbaton
- English todayhyperbaton
Borrowed from Latin hyperbaton, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπερβαίνω (huperbaínō), from ὑπέρ (hupér) + βαίνω (baínō, “walk”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.