The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχρῡσάνθεμον“Persian buttercup”
- Latin · learned borrowing fromchrȳsanthemum
- English todaychrysanthemum
Learned borrowing from Latin chrȳsanthemum, from Ancient Greek χρῡσάνθεμον (khrūsánthemon, “Persian buttercup”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.