The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥόγχος“snoring”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβρόγχος“bronchial tube”
- English todaybronchorrhoncus
From broncho- (“bronchus”) + -rhoncus (“snore, crackle”), from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos, “bronchial tube”) and Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβρόγχος all →
bronchusbroncho-bronchotome
Ancient Greekῥόγχος all →
rhonchus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.