The story
- Latin · derived fromcilium“eyelid”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκινέω“to move, put in motion”
- English todaykinocilium
From Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “to move, put in motion”) + Latin cilium (“eyelid”)
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκινέω all →
-kine
Latincilium all →
seelcilium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.