The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκόλλα“glue”
- French · borrowed fromcollagène
- English todaycollagen
From French collagène, coined from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) and -γενής (-genḗs, “-forming”) (see -gen); it is the main substance that animal glues are derived from.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκόλλα all →
colloidcollotypecolloblastcollocytecollophoredesmocollinglycocollosteocolla
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.