The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμόνος“single, alone”
- Latin · derived fromiuniperus“juniper”
- English todayoneseed juniper
Translated from the taxonomic name: translingual Juniperus is from Latin iuniperus (“juniper”) and monosperma is from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “single, alone”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”)
Words from the same roots
Latiniuniperus all →
juniperjenever
Ancient Greekμόνος all →
monochromaticmonismmonopsonymonochasiummonomicticmonoprionidianmonostichMonotessaronmonothalamous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.