The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromαἷμα“blood”
- Latin · derived fromcarbo“charcol”
- English todaycarbonæmia
From carbon + -aemia, conjunction: Latin carbo (“charcol”) and Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Words from the same roots
Latincarbo all →
Carbonellcarbonadocarbohæmia
Ancient Greekαἷμα all →
hemoglobinhemolysishaemophiliabloodflowercarbohæmiahaemalhaematidhaemato-haemonyhematic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.