Etymology

auriscalpium

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Today it means: Auriscalpium, a genus of mushrooms. Full definition →

Latin auris
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromauris“ear”
  2. English todayauriscalpium

The word is compounded of the Latin auris (“ear”) and scalpo (“to scratch”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.