The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλῡγαῖος“dark, gloomy”
- translingual · derived fromLygaeus
- translingual · borrowed fromLygaeidae
- English todaylygaeid
Borrowed from translingual Lygaeidae, from the type genus, translingual Lygaeus, borrowed from Ancient Greek λῡγαῖος (lūgaîos, “dark, gloomy”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.