The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκύων“dog”
- English todaycynodont
From cyno- + -odont, from Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ὀδόντος (odóntos), genitive singular of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth, tusk”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκύων all →
cynomolguscynanthropycyno-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.