The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromalga
- English todayalga
From Latin alga.
Words from the same roots
Latinalga all →
Algheroalgo-algology
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
alga
Today it means: Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic. Full definition →
Latin alga