The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥόγχος
- Latin · borrowed fromrhonchus“snoring”
- English todayrhonchus
Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.
Words from the same roots
Latinrhonchus all →
rhonchisonant
Ancient Greekῥόγχος all →
bronchorrhoncus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.