The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστένωσις“narrowing”
- New Latin · derived fromstenōsis
- English todaystenosis
From New Latin stenōsis, from Ancient Greek στένωσις (sténōsis, “narrowing”), from στενόω (stenóō, “to confine, to contract”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix), equivalent to steno- + -osis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.