The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγῠνή“woman”
- New Latin · borrowed fromperigynium
- English todayperigynium
Borrowed from New Latin perigynium, from peri- + Ancient Greek γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + -ium.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγῠνή all →
gyneromanticgyno-perigynous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.