The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδῆμος“common people”
- English todaydemosponge
From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “common people”) + sponge, a partial calque of translingual Demospongiae.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδῆμος all →
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First known use, by meaning
- from 19th c. A sponge of the class Demospongiae, having skeletons made of spongin fibers.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.