The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκληρός“hard”
- New Latin · borrowed fromsclēroderma
- English todayscleroderma
From New Latin sclēroderma, from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”). By surface analysis, sclero- + -derma.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκληρός all →
sclerasclero-sclerobasescleromascleroskeletonsclerotium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.