The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπυκνός“dense, crowded”
- English todaypycnaspidean
From Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense, crowded”) + ἀσπίς (aspís, “a shield”) + -ean.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.