The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπτερόν“wing, feather”
- English todaypteric
From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing, feather”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπτερόν all →
pterodactylpterosaurpteranodonapteriummegalopterousperipterperipterousperiptery-pterpterionptero-pteroclidpteroidpteronpteronophobiapteropodpterostigmapterotic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.