The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφρήν“diaphragm”
- New Latin · borrowed fromphrenicus
- English todayphrenic
From New Latin phrenicus, from Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn, “diaphragm”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφρήν all →
phrenphreno-symphronistic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.