The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβατράχεια
- New Latin · borrowed fromBatrachia
- English todaybatrachian
From New Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Ancient Greek βατράχεια (batrákheia), neuter plural of adjective from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.