The story
- Latin · derived fromhāmiformis
- English todayhamiform
First attested in glossaries in 1842 and first used in 1870; either directly from the Latin hāmiformis (1651, 1806) or formed from the suffixation of its etymon, hāmus (“hook”), with the English -form.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.