The story
- Latin · derived fromcirrus“fringe”
- English todaycirro-
From cirrus (“cloud-type”) and Latin cirrus (“fringe”). By surface analysis, cirr- + -o-.
Words from the same roots
Latincirrus all →
cirrus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Resembling a fringe Full definition →