The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπολεμικός“of war”
- French · derived frompolémique
- English todaypolemic
From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war”), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”). By surface analysis, polem- + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.