The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκατέχων“the one who withholds”
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκατέχον“that which withholds”
- English todaykatechon
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κατέχον (katékhon, “that which withholds”) or Ancient Greek κατέχων (katékhōn, “the one who withholds”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.