The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτμῆσις“a cutting”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromtmēsis
- English todaytmesis
From Late Latin tmēsis, from Ancient Greek τμῆσις (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”). First attested in 1586.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.