The story
- Latin · derived fromdūrus“hard”
- English todaydurain
From Latin dūrus (“hard”) + -ain in fusain; compare French -ain (“-ane”). Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.
Words from the same roots
Latindūrus all →
dourduredureneduricrustdurophagydurousdurum wheat
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.