The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκλέπτω“steal”
- English todaykleptogenesis
From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “steal”) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, creation, generation”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκλέπτω all →
kleptomaniakleptomaniac
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.