Etymology

aeluro-

Latin aelūrus ← Ancient Greek αἴλουρος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromαἴλουρος“cat”
  2. Latin · learned borrowing fromaelūrus“cat”
  3. English todayaeluro-

Learned borrowing from Latin aelūrus (“cat”) from Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros, “cat”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekαἴλουρος all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.