The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromναυτίλος“paper nautilus, sailor”
- Latin · derived fromnautilus
- English todaynautilus
From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “paper nautilus, sailor”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nautilus
nau·ti·lusToday it means: A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus. Full definition →
Latin nautilus ← Ancient Greek ναυτίλος