The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλευκός“white”
- English todayleucistic
From leucism + -istic, ultimately from Latinized form of Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλευκός all →
leukemialeucineleucoleuco-leucophoreleuko-leukorrhea
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.