The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβρόγχος“trachea, throat”
- Late Latin · learned borrowing frombronchus
- English todaybronchus
Learned borrowing from Late Latin bronchus, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos, “trachea, throat”).
Words from the same roots
Late Latinbronchus all →
bronchitis
Ancient Greekβρόγχος all →
broncho-bronchorrhoncusbronchotome
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.