The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχείρ“hand”
- New Latin · borrowed fromcheiropterygium
- English todaycheiropterygium
From New Latin cheiropterygium, from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “wing, fin”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχείρ all →
chiropracticchiropractorcheremecherologychiroplastchiropracticschiropterchiropterologistchiropterology
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.