The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμίτος“thread”
- German · borrowed fromMitose
- English todaymitosis
From German Mitose, from Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “thread”) + -osis, probably in reference to the thread-like chromatin seen during mitosis.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμίτος all →
mitochondrionmitogenesismito-mitome
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.