The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμετα-“after”
- New Latin · borrowed frommetosteon
- English todaymetosteon
From New Latin metosteon, from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-, “after”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμετα- all →
meta-metanotummetapode
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.