Skip to content

sphacel

sphac·el

Today it means: Gangrene. Full definition →

Ancient Greek σφάκελος

Ask AI about its historyChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

The story

Ancient Greek · derived fromσφάκελος
English todaysphacel

From Ancient Greek σφάκελος (sphákelos). Compare French sphacèle.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσφάκελος all →

sphacelus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.