The story
- Latin · borrowed fromacinus“grape, grape-stone”
- English todayacinus
Unadapted borrowing from Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.
Words from the same roots
Latinacinus all →
acinaceousaciniform
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.