The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὠμοπλάτη“shoulder blade”
- French · borrowed fromomoplate
- English todayomoplate
From French omoplate, from Ancient Greek ὠμοπλάτη (ōmoplátē, “shoulder blade”), from ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”) + πλάτη (plátē, “something flat or broad”). By surface analysis, omo- (“shoulder”) + plate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.