The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromψόᾱς“of the muscle of the loins”
- English todaypsoas
From Ancient Greek ψόᾱς (psóās, “of the muscle of the loins”), genitive singular of ψόα (psóa).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
psoas
pso·asToday it means: Either of two muscles, the psoas major and psoas minor, involved in flexion of the trunk. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ψόᾱς