The story
- German · learned borrowing fromMorphontogenie
- English todaymorphogeny
Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphontogenie, itself from morpho- + Ontogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + ontogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -geny (“origin”). The simplification means that the term is also used to translate German Morphogenie, the distinction between Morphontogenie and Morphogenie not being made in English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.