The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκάμψις
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγόνυ“knee”
- English todaygonycampsis
From gony- (“knee”) + -campsis (“bend, curve”), from Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”) and Ancient Greek κάμψις (kámpsis).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγόνυ all →
gon-gonitisgonodactyloidgony-gonyalgiagonyaulaxgonycrotesisgonyleptoidgonyoncus
Ancient Greekκάμψις all →
-campsisdactylocampsisphallocampsisrachiocampsis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.