The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσωρῑ́της“fallacy of the heap”
- Latin · borrowed fromsōrītēs
- English todaysorites
From the Latin sōrītēs, from the Ancient Greek σωρῑ́της (sōrī́tēs, “fallacy of the heap”), from σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.