The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμετάθεσις
- Late Latin · borrowed frommetathesis
- English todaymetathesis
Borrowed from Late Latin metathesis, from Ancient Greek μετάθεσις (metáthesis), from μετά (metá, “among”) + θέσις (thésis, “placement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.