The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΚαδμεία
- Latin · borrowed fromcadmia
- English todaycadmia
From Latin cadmia, ultimately from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Doublet of calamine, calaminaris, and lapis calaminaris.
Words from the same roots
Ancient GreekΚαδμεία all →
cadmiumCadmea
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.