The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκορμός“trunk stripped of boughs”
- Latin · derived fromcormus
- English todaycormo-
By surface analysis, corm + -o-, from Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of boughs”).
Words from the same roots
Latincormus all →
cormnanocormia
Ancient Greekκορμός all →
cormcormoidcormophytecormusmacrocormicnanocormia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.