The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥοπαλιον
- New Latin · borrowed fromrhopalium
- English todayrhopalocercous
From New Latin rhopalium, from Ancient Greek ῥοπαλιον (rhopalion), diminutive of ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club”) + -cercous.
Words from the same roots
New Latinrhopalium all →
rhopalium
Ancient Greekῥοπαλιον all →
rhopalium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.