The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφαίνω“to shine, to show, to appear”
- English todayphenotype
From pheno- + -type, from Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, to show, to appear”) + τύπος (túpos, “mark, type”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.