The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμυκτήρ“nose”
- translingual · borrowed fromMyctophidae
- English todaymyctophid
From translingual Myctophidae, from Ancient Greek μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nose”) + ὄφις (óphis, “serpent”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμυκτήρ all →
xeromycteria
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.