The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*weri
- Medieval Greek · borrowed fromῥαντιστήριον
- English todayrantistirion
Borrowed from Medieval Greek ῥαντιστήριον (rhantistḗrion), from ῥαντίζω (rhantízō) (a late form of ῥαίνω (rhaínō, “to sprinkle, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *weri) + -ῐον (-ĭon, “suffix forming diminutive nouns”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.