The story
- French · borrowed fromtréma
- Dutch · borrowed fromtrema
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτρῆμα“hole”
- English todaytrema
From Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma, “hole”), from τετραίνω (tetraínō, “perforate”), used for the dots on dice, via Dutch trema and French tréma.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekτρῆμα all →
-tremetryma
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.