The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλάκα“plate”
- English todaymalakoplakia
From malako- (“soft”) + Ancient Greek πλάκα (pláka, “plate”) + -ia, from πλάξ (pláx).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπλάκα all →
placula
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.