The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπτερόν“wing”
- English today-pter
From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπτερόν all →
pterodactylpterosaurpteranodonapteriummegalopterousperipterperipterousperipteryptericpterionptero-pteroclidpteroidpteronpteronophobiapteropodpterostigmapterotic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.