The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγεω-“earth-”
- English todaygeostrophic
From Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth-”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”) + -ic.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγεω- all →
geologygeo-geosmin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.