The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀπός“vegetable juice”
- Latin · borrowed fromopopanax
- English todayopopanax
Borrowed from Latin opopanax, from Hellenistic Greek ὀποπάναξ (opopánax), from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “vegetable juice”) + πάναξ (pánax, “any of several plants believed to have medicinal benefits”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀπός all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.