The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφόρησις“wearing, garment”
- French · derived fromphorésie
- English todayphoresy
From French phorésie, from Ancient Greek φόρησις (phórēsis, “wearing, garment”), from φορέω (phoréō, “I wear, I bear”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix). See -phore.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.