The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπηκτικός“curdling”
- English todaypectic
From pectin + -ic, from Ancient Greek πηκτικός (pēktikós, “curdling”), from πηκτός (pēktós, “curdled”), from πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “stiffen”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπηκτικός all →
pectin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.