sorosis · noun1
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσωρός“heap”
- English todaysorosis
From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
sorosis · noun2
According to Webster Suppl. 1879, an arbitrary use of the botanical term, adopted as the name of the first club of the kind, founded in 1868. It follows that it shares the same etymology, referring to aggregation, rather than the etymology of sorority, which referred to sisterhood.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσωρός all →
sorediumsorosilicatesorus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.