The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπρωκτός“anus, rectum”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδασύς“hairy, shaggy, dense”
- English todaydasyproctid
From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, shaggy, dense”) + Ancient Greek πρωκτός (prōktós, “anus, rectum”) + -id, equivalent to translingual Dasyprocta + -id.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδασύς all →
dasy-dasymetricdasyphyllousdasypygaldasyure
Ancient Greekπρωκτός all →
epiproctprocto-proctodeumpseudoproct
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.