The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμήτριον“of a mother”
- Late Latin · derived frommetrium“womb”
- English todayperimetrium
From peri- + Late Latin metrium (“womb”), from Ancient Greek μήτριον (mḗtrion, “of a mother”).
Words from the same roots
Late Latinmetrium all →
endometriummyometriummetramorphosis
Ancient Greekμήτριον all →
endometriummyometrium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.