The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromθήκη“box, case, container, sheath”
- English todayargyrothecology
By surface analysis, argyro- + theco- (“Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “box, case, container, sheath”)”) + -log + -y or argyro- + thec- (“Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “box, case, container, sheath”)”) + ology.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekθήκη all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.