The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσυστολή
- English todaysystole
Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to send”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.