The story
- Spanish · derived fromautogiro
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromαὐτο-“self-”
- English todayautogyro
From auto- and gyro-, from latinized forms of Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) and γῦρος (gûros, “circle, gyre”), a variant of earlier Spanish autogiro.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekαὐτο- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.