The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκεφαλή“head”
- Latin · borrowed from-cephalia
- German · borrowed from-zephalie
- French · borrowed from-céphalie
- English today-cephaly
From French -céphalie, German -zephalie, or Latin -cephalia, from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) and a suffix: French -ie, German -ie, or Latin -ia.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκεφαλή all →
cephalopodcephalonacanthocephalancephalgiacephalo-cephalophore-cephalouscephalouskephale
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.