The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἑρμοδάκτυλος“Hermes's finger”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromhermodactylus
- English todayhermodactyl
From Medieval Latin hermodactylus, from Ancient Greek ἑρμοδάκτυλος (hermodáktulos, “Hermes's finger”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.