The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπυκνός“dense, compressed”
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπυκνόν
- English todaypyknon
From Ancient Greek πυκνόν (puknón), form of Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense, compressed”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπυκνός all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.