The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνυμφόληπτος“caught by nymphs, frenzied”
- English todaynympholept
From Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numphólēptos, “caught by nymphs, frenzied”), from νύμφη (númphē) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.