The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπρόληψις“preconception, anticipation”
- Latin · borrowed fromprolepsis
- English todayprolepsis
From Latin prolepsis, from Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis, “preconception, anticipation”), from προλαμβάνω (prolambánō, “take beforehand, anticipate”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.