The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὁμός“identical”
- English todayhomoecious
From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “identical”) + οἰκία (oikía, “house, family, tribe”), equivalent to hom- + -oecious.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὁμός all →
homotopyhomologicalhomilitehomo-homomorphoushomonomoushomoplasyhomopolar
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.