The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκέδρος
- Latin · borrowed fromcitrus“a citron tree, thuja”
- English todaycitrus
From Latin citrus (“a citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre. Thus a possible doublet of cedar.
Words from the same roots
Latincitrus all →
citron
Ancient Greekκέδρος all →
cedarcitroncedr-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.