The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκλάδος“branch”
- English todaycladus
From a New Latin form of Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch”). Doublet of clade and possibly holt.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκλάδος all →
cladecladisticsacanthocladousclado-polycladous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.