Etymology

necr-

Ancient Greek νεκρός
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromνεκρός“dead body”
  2. English todaynecr-

From Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “dead body”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekνεκρός all →

necropolisnecrophilianecro-necronym

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.