The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλᾰ́τῠσμᾰ“flat object”
- New Latin · borrowed fromplatysma
- English todayplatysma
Borrowed from New Latin platysma, from Ancient Greek πλᾰ́τῠσμᾰ (plắtŭsmă, “flat object”), from πλᾰτῠ́νω (plătŭ́nō, “widen”) + -μᾰ (-mă, “nominal suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.