The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκληρός“hard”
- English todaysclerobase
From Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”) + βᾰ́σις (bắsis, “stepping, step”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκληρός all →
sclerodermasclerasclero-scleromascleroskeletonsclerotium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.