The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀραιός“narrow, slender, thin, fine”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμέσος“middle, intermediate”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀμφαλός“navel, umbilicus”
- English todayomphalomesaraic
From omphalo- (“navel, umbilicus”) + mesaraic (“middle-vessel”), from Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel, umbilicus”) + Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle, intermediate”) + Ancient Greek ἀραιός (araiós, “narrow, slender, thin, fine”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀμφαλός all →
omphalo-omphalodeomphalosOmphalos hypothesisomphaloskepsisomphaloskeptic
Ancient Greekμέσος all →
Mesopotamiamesomesonmesicmesialmeso-mesocarpmesodiplosismesogastermesolemesologymesophloeummesostichmesozeugma
Ancient Greekἀραιός all →
mesaraic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.