The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνηκτός“swimming”
- English todaynectopod
From Ancient Greek νηκτός (nēktós, “swimming”) + -pod. By surface analysis, necto- + -pod.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekνηκτός all →
necto-physonect
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.