The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχαίτη“hair”
- English todaychaetophorous
From Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē, “hair”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”). By surface analysis, chaeto- + -phor + -ous.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχαίτη all →
chaetachaeto-chaetognathchaetophobia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.