anopheles

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₃bʰel-
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνωφελής“unprofitable, useless; hurtful, prejudicial”
3. taxonomic name · borrowed fromAnopheles“genus of mosquitoes”
4. English todayanopheles

Borrowed from taxonomic name Anopheles (“genus of mosquitoes”), coined by the German entomologist Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764–1845), from Ancient Greek ἀνωφελής (anōphelḗs, “unprofitable, useless; hurtful, prejudicial”), from ἀν- (an-) (a variant of ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having senses opposite to stems or terms to which it is attached)) + ὄφελος (óphelos, “advantage, benefit, good”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel-) + -ης (-ēs, suffix forming third-declension adjectives). Doublet of Ophelia