The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὄγκος“tumor”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγόνυ“knee”
- English todaygonyoncus
From gony- (“knee”) + -oncus (“tumor”), from Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”) and Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “tumor”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγόνυ all →
gon-gonitisgonodactyloidgony-gonyalgiagonyaulaxgonycampsisgonycrotesisgonyleptoid
Ancient Greekὄγκος all →
onchocerciasisarthroncusmaschaloncusonco-oncotic-oncusparophthalmoncussialadenoncusstaphyloncus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.