The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφῡτόν“plant”
- translingual · borrowed fromPhytophthora
- English todayphytophthora
From the translingual Phytophthora (genus name), from Ancient Greek φῡτόν (phūtón, “plant”) + φθορᾱ́ (phthorā́, “destruction, ruin”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.