Etymology

spleno-

Today it means: spleen Full definition →

Ancient Greek σπλήν
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσπλήν“spleen”
  2. English todayspleno-

From Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσπλήν all →

spleensplenectomysplenalgiasplenizationsplenocleisissplenoidsplenotoxin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.