The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμύκης“fungus”
- translingual · borrowed fromMycoplasma
- English todaymycoplasma
From translingual Mycoplasma, from Latin, from Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “fungus”) + πλάσμα (plásma, “-shaped”). Equivalent to myco- + plasma.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμύκης all →
-mycetemycetemycetism-mycin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.