The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀπίσθιος“rear, behind”
- New Latin · borrowed fromopisthion
- English todayopisthion
From New Latin opisthion, from Ancient Greek ὀπίσθιος (opísthios, “rear, behind”), from ὄπισθεν (ópisthen, “at the back, backwards”). By surface analysis, opisth- + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.