The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκῡ́μᾰτος“wave, billow, swell, sprout, fetus”
- Latin · derived fromcȳmat(is)“sprout, swelling, hollow sphere”
- English todaycymatoid
From Latin cȳmat(is) (“sprout, swelling, hollow sphere”) + -oid, stem of cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῡ́μᾰτος (kū́mătos, “wave, billow, swell, sprout, fetus”), genitive of κῦμα (kûma).
Words from the same roots
Latincȳma all →
cymaticcymaticscymatiumcymatographcymatoscopecymecymoscope
Ancient Greekκῦμα all →
cymacymaticcymaticscymatiumcymatographcymatoscopecymecymoscopecymotrichouskymo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.