The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπνεῦμα“breath”
- Latin · derived fromamphi-“around, both”
- taxonomic name · borrowed fromAmphiuma
- English todayamphiuma
Borrowed from taxonomic name Amphiuma, from Latin amphi- (“around, both”), and an alteration of Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “breath”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπνεῦμα all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.