The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμαλακός“soft”
- English todaymalaco-
From Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”), the word that French mollusque (“mollusk”), originally from Latin mollis (“soft”) was meant to be a calque of. By surface analysis, malac- + -o-.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμαλακός all →
malacologymalacodermmalacolitemalacosteon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.