The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδαρτός“flayed”
- Latin · borrowed fromdartos
- English todaydartos
From Latin dartos, from Ancient Greek δαρτός (dartós, “flayed”), from δέρω (dérō, “to skin, to flay”) + -τός (-tós, adjectival suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.