Etymology

mortichnium

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Today it means: The trail or trace left by a dying animal, especially as preserved in a fossil. Full definition →

Latin mors
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frommors“death, corpse”
  2. English todaymortichnium

From Latin mors (“death, corpse”) + -ichnion, with influence from -ium.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.