Etymology

fetus

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Today it means: An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. Full definition →

Latin fētus
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromfētus“offspring”
  2. English todayfetus

A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.