The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτρύπανον“auger, borer”
- Latin · derived fromtrepanum
- French · borrowed fromtréphine
- English todaytrephine
Borrowed from French tréphine, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trepan.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.