The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄρθρον“joint”
- English todayarthropod
From New Latin Arthropoda, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”) + πούς (poús, “foot”), equivalent to arthro- + -pod.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄρθρον all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.