The story
- translingual · learned borrowing fromOdontoceti
- English todayodontocete
Learned borrowing from translingual Odontoceti, From Ancient Greek ὀδόντος (odóntos, “teeth”) + κῆτος (kêtos, “whale”).
Words from the same roots
translingualOdontoceti all →
toothed whale
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.