The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromΣαυρομᾰτῐκός“Sarmatian”
- English todaySauromatic
From Ancient Greek Σαυρομᾰτῐκός (Sauromătĭkós, “Sarmatian”), from Σαυρομάτης (Sauromátēs, “a Sarmatian”), as used by Herodotus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.