The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκέρκος“tail”
- New Latin · borrowed fromcercāria
- English todaycercaria
From New Latin cercāria, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) + -āria.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκέρκος all →
cercal-cercouscercus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.