Etymology

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Today it means: A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each of which eventually breaks open at the inner angle. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromῥῆγμα“breaking, fracture”
  2. English todayregma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα (rhêgma, “breaking, fracture”). Doublet of rhegma.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekῥῆγμα all →

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