The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromστρόφαλος
- English todaystrophalos
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στρόφαλος (stróphalos), from στρόφ (stróph, “twisting, twirling, whirling”) + αλος (alos, “halo, circle, coil, crest, disk, ring, wheel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.