Etymology

anecic

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French anécique ← Ancient Greek ἀνέχω
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνέχω“to rise up, emerge”
  2. French · derived fromanécique
  3. English todayanecic

From French anécique, coined by Marcel B. Bouché, French earthworm biologist (1971), from Ancient Greek ἀνέχω (anékhō, “to rise up, emerge”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.