Etymology

osteocolla

O1S1T1E1O1C3O1L1L1A1

Today it means: A kind of glue obtained from bones. Full definition →

Ancient Greek κόλλα
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκόλλα“glue”
  2. English todayosteocolla

From osteo- + Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekκόλλα all →

collagencolloidcollotypecolloblastcollocytecollophoredesmocollinglycocoll

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.