The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλεῦσις“sailing”
- English todaypleuston
From Ancient Greek πλεῦσις (pleûsis, “sailing”), from πλέω (pléō) + -on. The -t- is on analogy with the coordinate terms.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pleuston
Today it means: The organisms that live floating at the surface of water. Full definition →
Ancient Greek πλεῦσις