The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπνευματικός“relating to wind or air”
- Latin · borrowed frompneumaticus
- English todaypneumatic
From Latin pneumaticus, from Ancient Greek πνευματικός (pneumatikós, “relating to wind or air”), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, air, breath, spirit”), from πνέω (pnéō, “to blow, breath”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.