The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλευρόθεν“sidewards”
- English todaypleurothotonus
From Ancient Greek πλευρόθεν (pleuróthen, “sidewards”) (from πλευρᾱ́ (pleurā́) + -θεν (-then)) + τόνος (tónos, “tension”). By surface analysis, pleurotho- + tonus. See further at opisthotonos.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπλευρόθεν all →
pleurotho-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.