The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπονδή“libation”
- Egyptian · calque ofsqbb“libator”
- English todayspondist
Calque of Egyptian sqbb (“libator”), participle of sqbb (“to cool, to libate with water”), by way of Ancient Greek σπονδή (spondḗ, “libation”) suffixed with -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.