The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχολή“gall, bile”
- New Latin · borrowed fromcholaemia
- English todaycholaemia
From New Latin cholaemia, from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “gall, bile”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, chole- + -aemia.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχολή all →
cholinecholiccholercholangio-chole-cholecystcholecystischolic acidcholochrome
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.