The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromorchis
- English todayorchiopexy
Learned borrowing from Latin orchis + -pexy, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”) + πῆξις (pêxis, “fixing”).
Words from the same roots
Latinorchis all →
orchidorchisorchidectomycryptorchid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.