The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλοχεία
- Latin · learned borrowing fromlochia
- English todaylochia
Learned borrowing from Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία (lokheía), neuter plural of λοχείος (lokheíos, “of childbirth”), from λόχος (lókhos, “childbirth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.