The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπείραμα“convolution”
- English todayspireme
From Ancient Greek σπείραμα (speírama, “convolution”), ultimately from σπεῖρα (speîra). Probably influenced by -eme.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
spireme
Today it means: The tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.) Full definition →
Ancient Greek σπείραμα