The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromξύλον“wood”
- Latin · derived frommorus“mulberry tree”
- English todaymoroxylic acid
Latin morus (“mulberry tree”) + Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”) + -ic + acid. Named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Words from the same roots
Latinmorus all →
mulberrymoraceousmoriformmorintannic acid
Ancient Greekξύλον all →
xylemxylonxylotomous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.