The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπαράδοξος“unexpected, strange”
- Latin · derived fromparadoxum
- Middle French · borrowed fromparadoxe
- English todayparadox
From Middle French paradoxe, from Latin paradoxum, from Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “unexpected, strange”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπαράδοξος all →
paradoxure
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.