The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔμβολος“peg, stopper”
- Latin · borrowed fromembolus“piston”
- English todayembolus
The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).
Words from the same roots
Latinembolus all →
embolite
Ancient Greekἔμβολος all →
embolaliaemboliteembolospleurembolic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.