The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλεπίς“scale”
- English todaylepidopterology
From Ancient Greek λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study”), or, more recently, from translingual Lepidoptera + -ology.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλεπίς all →
lepidolitelepallepidic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.