The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥόπαλον“club, bat”
- Latin · borrowed fromrhopalicus
- English todayrhopalic
From Latin rhopalicus, from Ancient Greek ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club, bat”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekῥόπαλον all →
rhoptry
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.