The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὑδροκήλη
- Latin · borrowed fromhydrocēlē
- French · borrowed fromhydrocèle
- English todayhydrocele
From French hydrocèle or Latin hydrocēlē, from Ancient Greek ὑδροκήλη (hudrokḗlē), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.