The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromναστός“pressed together”
- German · borrowed fromnastisch
- English todaynastic
From German nastisch from epinastisch, coined c.1854 by German botanist Karl Friedrich Schimper, from Ancient Greek ναστός (nastós, “pressed together”), from νάσσω (nássō, “to press, cram full”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekναστός all →
hyponastic-nast-nasty
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.