The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσίφων
- Latin · derived fromsīphunculus“little tube”
- English todaysiphuncule
From Latin sīphunculus (“little tube”), from sīphō (“tube, pipe”) + -culus (diminutive suffix), from Ancient Greek σίφων (síphōn), of uncertain and possibly non-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate origin.
Words from the same roots
Latinsīphunculus all →
siphuncle
Ancient Greekσίφων all →
siphonsiphono-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.