The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπάθη“blade”
- Latin · borrowed fromspatha
- English todayspathe
From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”). Doublet of epee, spatha, and spade.
Words from the same roots
Latinspatha all →
epeespatha
Ancient Greekσπάθη all →
spatulaepeespathspathaspathic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.