The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀπός“vegetable juice”
- English todayopodeldoc
So called by Paracelsus. The first syllable may be from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “vegetable juice”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀπός all →
opineopopanax
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.