The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβρῶμος“stink”
- English todaybromopnea
From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”) (see bromo-) + -pnea. Coined by William J. Lederer in 1907.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβρῶμος all →
brominebromeantibromic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.