Etymology

sapro-

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Ancient Greek σαπρός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromσαπρός“putrid”
  2. English todaysapro-

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σαπρός (saprós, “putrid”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσαπρός all →

saprovore

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