The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἁπλόος“two-fold, single”
- New Latin · borrowed fromhaplolepideus
- English todayhaplolepidous
From New Latin haplolepideus, from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haplóos, “two-fold, single”) + λεπίδιον (lepídion, “small plate used to close a tube”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἁπλόος all →
aplomehaplo-haplonthaplorrhine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.