The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκύων“dog”
- Latin · learned borrowing fromcyno-
- English todaycyno-
Learned borrowing from Latin cyno-, from the combining form of Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) formed with -ο- (-o-). Cf. cynic. By surface analysis, cyn- + -o-. Piecewise doublet of cano-.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκύων all →
cynomolguscynanthropycynodont
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.