The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμέτωπον“forehead”
- Late Latin · derived frommetoposcopia
- Middle French · derived frommetoposcopie
- English todaymetoposcopy
From Middle French metoposcopie, and its source, Late Latin metoposcopia, ultimately from Ancient Greek μέτωπον (métōpon, “forehead”) + -scopy.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμέτωπον all →
metopionmetopomancy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.