The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromπυκνός“dense, compact, thick”
- English todaypycno-
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense, compact, thick”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπυκνός all →
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