The story
- Latin · derived fromsuperstitio“superstition”
- Middle French · derived fromsuperstition
- English todaysuperstition
From Middle French superstition, from Latin superstitio (“superstition”), from superstāre (“to stand above, to stand upon, to survive”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming nouns”), from super- (“above, over, upon”) + stāre (“to stand”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.