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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔκτασις
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλίθος
- English todaylithectasy
From lith- (“stone”), from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos), + Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis, “stretching out, extension”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλίθος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.