The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπασμός“spasm, convulsion”
- Latin · derived fromspasmus
- Old French · derived fromspasme
- Middle English · inherited fromspasme
- English todayspasm
From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.