The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπαῦρος“small, little”
- English todaypaurometabolous
From Ancient Greek παῦρος (paûros, “small, little”) + metabolous (“undergoing metamorphosis”), modeled after ametabolous, hemimetabolous. See Translingual Paurometabola (from New Latin).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.