The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἄκαρπος“fruitless”
- English todayacarpous
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄκαρπος (ákarpos, “fruitless”), from privative ἀ- (a-) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
acarpous
Today it means: Not producing fruit; unfruitful; sterile. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἄκαρπος