Etymology

-phyll

Today it means: leaf Full definition →

Ancient Greek φύλλον
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφύλλον“leaf”
  2. English today-phyll

From Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekφύλλον all →

phylloxerachromphyllitelaurophyllousniobophyllitephyllo-phyllon-phyllous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.