Spasm
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late Middle English: from Old French spasme, or via Latin from Greek spasmos, spasma, from span ‘pull’.
wiktionary
From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός(spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω(spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
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spasm (n.)
late 14c., "sudden violent muscular contraction," from Old French spasme (13c.) and directly from Latin spasmus "a spasm," from Greek spasmos "a spasm, convulsion," from span "draw up, tear away, contract violently, pull, pluck," from PIE *spe- "stretch." Figurative sense of "a sudden convulsion" (of emotion, politics, etc.) is attested from 1817.
spasm (v.)
1900, from spasm (n.). Related: Spasmed; spasming.
