The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμαιευτικός“obstetric”
- English todaymaieutic
From Ancient Greek μαιευτικός (maieutikós, “obstetric”). The rhetorical sense comes from a passage in Plato's Theaetetus where Socrates likens his procedure to that of a midwife.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.