Etymology

fungus

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Today it means: A eukaryotic organism of the kingdom Fungi typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. Full definition →

Latin fungus
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfungus“mushroom”
  2. English todayfungus

Borrowed from Latin fungus (“mushroom”). Displaced native Old English swamm.

Words from the same roots

Latinfungus all →

fungefungi-fungicfungilliformfungin

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