The story
- New Latin · borrowed fromōmohȳoīdēs
- English todayomohyoid
Borrowing from New Latin ōmohȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”) + Latin hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to omo- (“shoulder”) + hyoid. Doublet of omohyoideus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.