The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπρο-“before”
- New Latin · borrowed fromproemptōsis
- English todayproemptosis
From New Latin proemptōsis, from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “before”) + ἔμπτωσις (émptōsis, “falling”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπρο- all →
propolisproostracumpropterygiumproscolexprozeugma
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.