The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἰχθυόκολλα“fish-glue”
- Latin · derived fromichthyocolla
- English todayichthyocolla
From Latin ichthyocolla, from Ancient Greek ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla, “fish-glue”), from ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.