The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὄρεξις“desire”
- Latin · borrowed fromorexis“longing; appetite”
- English todayorexis
From Latin orexis (“longing; appetite”), from Ancient Greek ὄρεξις (órexis, “desire”), from ὀρέγω (orégō, “to reach, stretch”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὄρεξις all →
orexin-orexiaorexigenic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.