The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκαίειν“to burn”
- New Latin · borrowed fromcaeoma
- English todaycaeoma
New Latin caeoma, from Ancient Greek καίειν (kaíein, “to burn”) + -ωμα (-ōma). Attested from 1832.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
caeoma
Today it means: An aecium of some rust fungi that has no peridium or outer membrane. Full definition →
New Latin caeoma ← Ancient Greek καίειν