The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστήριγμα“support, foundation”
- English todaysterigma
From Ancient Greek στήριγμα (stḗrigma, “support, foundation”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sterigma
Today it means: A slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore. Full definition →
Ancient Greek στήριγμα