Etymology

rhagon

R1H4A1G2O1N1

Today it means: A form of sponge with clustered spherical flagellated endodermal chambers. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ῥάξ
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromῥάξ“grape, berry”
  2. English todayrhagon

New Latin, from ῥᾱγ-, stem of Ancient Greek ῥάξ (rháx, “grape, berry”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.