The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφίμωσις“muzzling; contraction of the prepuce”
- English todayphimosis
From Ancient Greek φίμωσις (phímōsis, “muzzling; contraction of the prepuce”), from φῑμόω (phīmóō, “to muzzle”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.