The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνῆμα“thread”
- English todaynemathecium
From Ancient Greek νῆμα (nêma, “thread”) (compare nemato-) + θήκη (thḗkē, “sheath”) + -ium.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekνῆμα all →
acronemenemaliteplectoneme
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.