The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπασμώδης“spasmodic”
- New Latin · borrowed fromspasmōdicus
- English todayspasmodic
From New Latin spasmōdicus, from Ancient Greek σπασμώδης (spasmṓdēs, “spasmodic”), from σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.