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- Ancient Greek · derived fromκόϊξ“doum palm”
- New Latin · borrowed fromcoix
- English todaycoix
From New Latin coix, from Ancient Greek κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
coix
Today it means: An East Asian grass (Coix lacryma-jobi), sometimes harvested as a cereal. Full definition →
New Latin coix ← Ancient Greek κόϊξ