The story
- Latin · derived fromplānum
- Late Latin · derived fromplānārius“lying on a plane”
- translingual · borrowed fromPlanaria
- English todayplanarian
From translingual Planaria (genus) (from Late Latin plānārius (“lying on a plane”), from Latin plānum) + -an.
Words from the same roots
Late Latinplānārius all →
planarplanular
Latinplānum all →
plainplaneplanum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.