The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτρῖψις“rubbing, friction”
- New Latin · borrowed fromtrīpsis
- English todaytripsis
From New Latin trīpsis, from Ancient Greek τρῖψις (trîpsis, “rubbing, friction”), from τρῑ́βω (trī́bō, “I rub”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.