Etymology

sphagnum

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Today it means: Any of various widely distributed mosses, of genus Sphagnum, which slowly decompose to form peat. Full definition →

translingual Sphagnum ← Ancient Greek σφάγνος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσφάγνος
  2. translingual · borrowed fromSphagnum
  3. English todaysphagnum

Borrowed from translingual Sphagnum, which is from Ancient Greek σφάγνος (sphágnos).

Words from the same roots

translingualSphagnum all →

sphagnicolous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.