The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχλᾰμῠ́δ-
- English todaychlamydeous
Probably back-formation from achlamydeous, archichlamydeous, metachlamydeous, monochlamydeous; or from Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́δ- (khlămŭ́d-, stem of χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlămŭ́s)) chlamys + -eous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.