The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥάχις“the spine”
- French · derived fromrachitome
- English todayrachitome
From French rachitome, from Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “the spine”) + τομός (tomós, “to cut”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekῥάχις all →
rachisrach-rachi-rachialgiarachid-rachiometerrachiotomy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.