The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφράσις“manner of expression”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromphrasis“diction”
- English todayphrase
Borrowed from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “to tell, express”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφράσις all →
phraseology-phrasia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.