Etymology

mito-

Today it means: Thread. Full definition →

Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos) ← Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμίτος (mítos)
  3. English todaymito-

# From Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “thread of the warp”). # From mitosis.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekμίτος all →

mitosismitochondrionmitogenesismitome

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.