The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβύσσος“flax; flax cotton”
- Latin · borrowed frombyssus
- English todaybyssus
From Latin byssus, from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “flax; flax cotton”), from a Semitic source cognate to Hebrew בּוּץ (būṣ, “byssus”) and Aramaic בּוּצָא (būṣā, “byssus”)
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.