The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκύφος“cup”
- English todayscyphistoma
From Ancient Greek σκύφος (skúphos, “cup”) + στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκύφος all →
skyphos
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
scyphistoma
Today it means: An individual cell in a stage of the life cycle of a true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), a colony of such cells, when it resembles a polyp and breeds asexually by strobilation. Full definition →
Ancient Greek σκύφος