The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκληρός“hard”
- New Latin · borrowed fromsclera
- English todaysclera
Borrowed from New Latin sclera, from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκληρός all →
sclerodermasclero-sclerobasescleromascleroskeletonsclerotium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.