The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλεπτός“thin, slim”
- English todayleptocephalus
From (obsolete) genus name Leptocephalus, equivalent to Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin, slim”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλεπτός all →
leptinleptonleptospiralepto-leptolithic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.