Etymology

porion

P3O1R1I1O1N1

Today it means: The point on the human skull located at the upper margin of each ear canal, and underlying the tragus. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πόρος
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπόρος“opening”
  2. English todayporion

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “opening”) + -ion.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπόρος all →

poreisopor

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.