The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκρίνω“to separate”
- English today-crine
Contraction of acridine. Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to separate”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκρίνω all →
endocrine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
-crine
Today it means: Used to form names of acridine derivatives. Full definition →
Ancient Greek κρίνω