The story
- Latin · derived fromcolere“to dwell”
- Latin · derived fromsaxum“a rock”
- English todaysaxicolous
From New Latin, from Latin saxum (“a rock”) + Latin colere (“to dwell”) + -ous.
Words from the same roots
Latinsaxum all →
saxicavous
Latincolere all →
ignicolist
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.