The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀείρω“to raise, lift”
- German · borrowed fromAirorhynchie
- English todayairorhynchy
Coined by Austrian zoologist Helmut Otto Hofer in 1952 as German Airorhynchie, from Ancient Greek ἀείρω (aeírō, “to raise, lift”) + ῥῠ́γχος (rhŭ́nkhos, “snout”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.