The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπάρεσις“letting go, paralysis”
- English todayparesis
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek πάρεσις (páresis, “letting go, paralysis”), from παρίημι (paríēmi, “relax”), from παρα- (para-) + ἵημι (híēmi, “let go”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.