The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὑφή“web”
- New Latin · borrowed fromhypha
- English todayhypha
From New Latin hypha, from Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hypha
Today it means: Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus. Full definition →
New Latin hypha ← Ancient Greek ὑφή