The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστόμα“mouth”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀγκύλος“curved”
- taxonomic name · borrowed fromAncylostoma
- English todayancylostoma
Borrowed from the taxonomic name Ancylostoma, eventually from Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “curved”) and Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”). Analyzable as ancylo- + stoma.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀγκύλος all →
ancyliteankylosaurus
Ancient Greekστόμα all →
fistuloenterostomylipostomystomato--stomestomodeum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.