The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκρῑ́νω“to separate”
- English todaymerocrine
From mero- (“partial”) + Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκρῑ́νω all →
apocrine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.