The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὑπερικόν
- Latin · derived fromhypericum
- translingual · borrowed fromHypericum
- English todayhypericum
From the genus name, translingual Hypericum, itself from Latin hypericum, from Ancient Greek ὑπερικόν (huperikón), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + ἐρείκη (ereíkē, “heath”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.