The story
- Latin · derived from-ium
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχήν“goose”
- English todaygoosefoot
Calque of Translingual Chenopodium, from Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn, “goose”) + πούς (poús, “foot”) + Latin -ium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
goosefoot
Today it means: Any of many flowering plants, of the saltbush subfamily Chenopodioideae, having small greenish flowers, including spinach. Full definition →
Ancient Greek χήν ← Latin -ium