The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκόκκος“grain”
- English todaycoccobacterium
From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain”) + bacterium, from its round shape.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκόκκος all →
rhodococcuscoccolitecoccolithcoccolithophorecoccospheretorgoch
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.