The story
- Spanish · derived frombrótula“little bud”
- New Latin · derived fromBrotula
- English todaybrotulid
From New Latin Brotula + -id, from Spanish brótula (“little bud”), from brotón (“bud, sprout”) + -ula (“diminutive suffix”), from brotar (“to bud, sprout”) + -ón (“augmentative suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.