The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀκτώ“eight”
- English todayoctodontid
From Octodon + -id < Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), according to the wear pattern of the teeth of these rodents, which resembles a figure 8.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀκτώ all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.