The story
- Latin · derived frommolluscus“thin-shelled”
- New Latin · derived fromMollusca
- French · borrowed frommollusque
- English todaymollusc
Borrowed from French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.