The story
- Latin · derived fromnodosus“knobby, knotted”
- translingual · derived fromNodosaurus
- English todaynodosaur
Clipping of nodosaurus, from translingual Nodosaurus, from New Latin, from Latin nodosus (“knobby, knotted”) + -saurus, equivalent to nodo- + -saur.
Words from the same roots
Latinnodosus all →
nodose
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.