The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβρόγχος
- English todaybronchotome
From broncho- + -tome, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos) and -τομον (-tomon, “that cuts”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβρόγχος all →
bronchusbroncho-bronchorrhoncus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.