The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμέσος“middle”
- New Latin · borrowed frommesogastrium
- English todaymesogaster
From New Latin mesogastrium, from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + γαστήρ (gastḗr, “belly”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμέσος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.