The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπαραλυτικός“paralyzed”
- Latin · derived fromparalyticus
- French · borrowed fromparalytique
- English todayparalytic
Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.