The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλάσμα“image, formation”
- Latin · derived frompirum“pear”
- English todaypiroplasma
From Latin pirum (“pear”) + Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “image, formation”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpirum all →
perrypear
Ancient Greekπλάσμα all →
plasmaplasmplasmaticmythoplasm-plasmplasmodesmaplasmoschisis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.