The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσηκός“enclosure”
- English todaysecotiaceous
From secoti(um) (“enclosed fruiting body”) + -aceous, modern scientific coinage from Ancient Greek σηκός (sēkós, “enclosure”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσηκός all →
secotioid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.