The story
- Italian · derived fromresina“resin”
- Medieval Greek · derived fromῥετσίνα
- Greek · borrowed fromρετσίνα
- English todayretsina
Borrowed from Greek ρετσίνα (retsína), from Medieval Greek ῥετσίνα (rhetsína), from Italian resina (“resin”). Doublet of resin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.