The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromμετάνοια“repentance”
- English todaymetanoia
From Ancient Greek μετάνοια (metánoia, “repentance”, literally “afterthought”), a compound of μετά (metá, “after, with”) and νοέω (noéō, “to perceive, to think”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμετάνοια all →
afterthinkmetania
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.