Etymology

spiritrompe

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Today it means: Synonym of haustellum (“sucking organ”). Full definition →

French spiritrompe ← Latin spira
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The story

  1. French · derived fromtrompe“trumpet, trunk (of an elephant)”
  2. Latin · derived fromspira“spiral”
  3. French · borrowed fromspiritrompe
  4. English todayspiritrompe

Borrowed from French spiritrompe, from Latin spira (“spiral”) + French trompe (“trumpet, trunk (of an elephant)”)

Words from the same roots

Latinspira all →

spiralspirospiriclespiriferspirillumspirula

Frenchtrompe all →

trompe

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.