The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδάκτυλος“finger”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγόνυ“knee, joint”
- English todaygonodactyloid
From Gonodactylus + -oid, from gono- (“joint”) from Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee, joint”) and Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”)), in reference to the species' specialized appendages.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγόνυ all →
gon-gonitisgony-gonyalgiagonyaulaxgonycampsisgonycrotesisgonyleptoidgonyoncus
Ancient Greekδάκτυλος all →
datedactylsyndactylycamptodactyly-dactyldactylectomydactyliographydactylitisdactylo-dactylomancydactyloscopydactylousdactylymacrodactylicparadactyltetradactyltridactylzygodactylous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.