The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκρίνω“to separate, also to secrete”
- French · borrowed fromendocrine
- English todayendocrine
From French endocrine, from endo- + Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to separate, also to secrete”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκρίνω all →
-crine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.