The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκορμός“trunk of a tree with the boughs cut off”
- English todaycormus
From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk of a tree with the boughs cut off”), from κείρω (keírō, “shear”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκορμός all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.