The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσωληνοειδής
- French · borrowed fromsolénoïde
- English todaysolenoid
From French solénoïde, from Ancient Greek σωληνοειδής (sōlēnoeidḗs) (from σωλήν (sōlḗn, “channel, pipe”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs); see -oid).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.