The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀρείχαλκος
- Latin · learned borrowing fromorichalcum
- English todayorichalcum
Learned borrowing from Latin orichalcum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρείχαλκος (oreíkhalkos), from dative singular of ὄρος (óros, “mountain”) + χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.