The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστρῶμα“bed, mattress”
- Latin · derived fromstroma“coverlet”
- English todaybiostrome
bio- (“life”) + Latin stroma (“coverlet”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed, mattress”).
Words from the same roots
Latinstroma all →
stroma
Ancient Greekστρῶμα all →
stromaolistostromestromatology
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.