The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκαρπός“wrist”
- New Latin · borrowed fromcarpus
- English todaycarpus
Borrowed from New Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκαρπός all →
achaenocarp-carpcarpalecarpo-carpolite-carpousepicarpexocarpKarpos
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.