The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromtendō“tendon”
- New Latin · derived fromtendineae
- Latin · derived fromchordae
- New Latin · borrowed fromchordae tendineae
- English todaychordae tendineae
Borrowed from New Latin chordae tendineae (literally “tendinous (tendon-like) cords”), from Latin chordae (plural of chorda (“cord, rope”)) + New Latin tendineae (plural of tendinea (“tendinous”), from Medieval Latin tendō (“tendon”)).
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latintendō all →
tendon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.