The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμαλακός“soft”
- English todaymalacosteon
From Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμαλακός all →
malacologymalaco-malacodermmalacolite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.