The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκαινός“new”
- English todayCenozoic
From ceno- + -zoic; from Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκαινός all →
Holocene-ceneceno-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.