The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπαράδοξος“incredible, paradoxical”
- English todayparadoxure
Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “incredible, paradoxical”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). So called because its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπαράδοξος all →
paradox
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.