Etymology

acheilous

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Today it means: lipless Full definition →

Ancient Greek χεῖλος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχεῖλος“lip”
  2. English todayacheilous

Derived from Ancient Greek χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”) with privative a- + -ous.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekχεῖλος all →

cheilo-chilopodxerochilia

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