The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβλαστός“a germ, bud, sprout, shoot”
- New Latin · borrowed fromblastula
- English todayblastula
From New Latin blastula, diminutive of Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “a germ, bud, sprout, shoot”), from βλαστάνω (blastánō, “to bud, sprout, grow, properly of plants, but also of animals”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβλαστός all →
blast cellblasto-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.