The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστροφή“a turn, bend, twist”
- Latin · borrowed fromstropha
- English todaystrophe
Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”). Compare strap and strop. Compare typologically rehearsal, rehearse (related to French herser (“to harrow”) << Latin hirpex, another meaning shift from the idea of turning).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekστροφή all →
strophiole-strophy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.