Etymology

psyllid

P3S1Y4L1L1I1D2

Today it means: Any of the host-specific plant-feeding insects of the family Psyllidae, which feed on plant juices. Full definition →

translingual Psyllidae ← Ancient Greek ψύλλα
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromψύλλα
  2. translingual · borrowed fromPsyllidae
  3. English todaypsyllid

From translingual Psyllidae, from Ancient Greek ψύλλα (psúlla).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.