Etymology

-gonium

Today it means: A reproductive structure of some organisms Full definition →

Ancient Greek γονή
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromγονή“engendering”
  2. English today-gonium

From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “engendering”) + -ium (“structure”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekγονή all →

gonad-gony

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