Etymology

dorcadion

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Today it means: Any longhorn beetle of the genus Dorcadion. Full definition →

translingual Dorcadion ← Ancient Greek δορκάδιον
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδορκᾰ́ς“roe, gazelle, antelope”
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromδορκάδιον
  3. translingual · borrowed fromDorcadion
  4. English todaydorcadion

Borrowed from translingual Dorcadion, itself from Ancient Greek δορκάδιον (dorkádion), a diminutive form of Ancient Greek δορκᾰ́ς (dorkắs, “roe, gazelle, antelope”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.