The story
- translingual · borrowed fromChiroteuthidae
- English todaychiroteuthid
Borrowed from translingual Chiroteuthidae, from Chiroteuthis (type genus) + -idae (family suffix), from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + Ancient Greek τευθίς (teuthís, “squid”). By surface analysis, translingual Chiroteuthis + -id.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.