The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromτετράκις λεγόμενον“(something) said only four times”
- English todaytetrakis legomenon
From Ancient Greek τετράκις λεγόμενον (tetrákis legómenon, “(something) said only four times”), from τετράκις (tetrákis, “four times”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.