The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀκαρί“cheese mite, tick”
- taxonomic name · learned borrowing fromAcarus
- English todayacarus
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Acarus, from Ancient Greek ἀκαρί (akarí, “cheese mite, tick”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀκαρί all →
acaridan
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.