The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromνέος“young”
- German · borrowed fromNeotenie
- English todayneoteny
From German Neotenie, coined in 1884 by anatomist Julius Kollmann from Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “young”) + τείνειν (teínein, “to extend, spread or tense”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekνέος all →
neologismneotericneochlorophyllneologist
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.