The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκῶμμα“jest, gibe”
- Latin · derived fromscomma“a taunt, jeer, scoff”
- English todayscomm
Latin scomma (“a taunt, jeer, scoff”), from Ancient Greek σκῶμμα (skômma, “jest, gibe”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.