The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκᾰφοειδής“like a bowl, hollow”
- Latin · derived fromscaphoides
- English todayscaphoid
From Latin scaphoides, from Ancient Greek σκᾰφοειδής (skăphoeidḗs, “like a bowl, hollow”), from σκᾰ́φη (skắphē, “boat, trough, bowl”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.