The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγένος“race, kind”
- English todaygenosome
From geno- + -some (noun), from Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγένος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.