The story
- translingual · borrowed fromPterophoridae
- English todaypterophorid
Borrowed from translingual Pterophoridae, from the type genus of Pterophorus, from the root words of Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather, wing”) + Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, “-bearing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.