The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔνδον“within, inside”
- French · derived fromendogé
- English todayendogeic
From French endogé + -ic. Endogé, first applied in the context of earthworms by Marcel Bouché (see anecic), is from Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “within, inside”) + γῆ (gê, “earth”), modelled after French épigé. By surface analysis, endo- + geo- + -ic.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἔνδον all →
endoosmosisend-endosteum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.