The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπτερόν“wing”
- French · borrowed fromptérion
- English todaypterion
From French ptérion, from ptère (“wing of the sphenoid bone”) + -ion, from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπτερόν all →
pterodactylpterosaurpteranodonapteriummegalopterousperipterperipterousperiptery-pterptericptero-pteroclidpteroidpteronpteronophobiapteropodpterostigmapterotic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.