The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλαρυγγισμός“a croaking”
- New Latin · borrowed fromlaryngismus
- English todaylaryngismus
Borrowed from New Latin laryngismus, from the Ancient Greek λαρυγγισμός (larungismós, “a croaking”), from λάρυγξ (lárunx), whence also larynx. By surface analysis, laryng- + -ismus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.