The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλίθος“a stone, a rock”
- English todayLithosian
From Latin Lithosia, the typical genus, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “a stone, a rock”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλίθος all →
lithiumlithiamegalithnephriteareniliticbalipholiteijolitekhmaralitekozulite-litelithectasylithopedionlithotecnon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.