The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκάφος“anything hollowed”
- English todayscaphander
Ancient Greek σκάφος (skáphos, “anything hollowed”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “a man”): compare French scaphandre.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκάφος all →
scaphopod
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.