The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκολεός“sheath”
- Latin · derived fromcoleus
- translingual · borrowed fromColeus
- English todaycoleus
From the genus name translingual Coleus, from Latin coleus, from Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós, “sheath”) in reference to the manner in which the stamens are united.
Words from the same roots
translingualColeus all →
colein
Ancient Greekκολεός all →
coleoptileculeus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.