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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπολυδάκτυλος
- English todaypolydactyly
From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos) + -y, from πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “digits”), equivalent to poly- + dactyly or polydactyl + -y.^((Etymology 3))
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπολυδάκτυλος all →
polydactyl
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.