Etymology

perianth

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Today it means: The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals). Full definition →

French périanthe ← New Latin perianthium
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The story

  1. New Latin · derived fromperianthium
  2. French · borrowed frompérianthe
  3. English todayperianth

From French périanthe, from New Latin perianthium.

Words from the same roots

New Latinperianthium all →

perianthium

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.