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- New Latin · borrowed fromgenīohyoīdeus
- English todaygeniohyoid
Borrowed from New Latin genīohyoīdeus, clipping of musculus genīohyoīdeus; from Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “the chin”) + Latin hyoīdēs (“U-shaped”) + Latin -eus (adjectival suffix); equivalent to genio- (“relating to the chin”) + hyoid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.