The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκυτάλη“club”
- Latin · derived fromscytale
- English todayscytalone
From scytale + -one, from Latin scytale, from Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “club”).
Words from the same roots
Latinscytale all →
scytale
Ancient Greekσκυτάλη all →
scytalescytalinid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.