The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχλαμύδιον“small cloak”
- New Latin · borrowed fromchlamydia
- English todaychlamydia
From New Latin chlamydia, from Ancient Greek χλαμύδιον (khlamúdion, “small cloak”), from χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.