The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγνάθος“jaw”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδρομαῖος“swift-running”
- translingual · derived fromDromæus“Dromaius”
- English todaydromaeognathous
Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley: binomial translingual Dromæus (“Dromaius”) (from Ancient Greek δρομαῖος (dromaîos, “swift-running”)) + Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”) + English -ous, adjectival suffix
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγνάθος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.