The story
- New Latin · borrowed fromsternocleidomastoīdēs
- English todaysternocleidomastoid
Borrowed from New Latin sternocleidomastoīdēs, from Latin sternum (“the breastbone”) + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “the collarbone”) + Latin mastoīdēs (“like a breast”), equivalent to sterno- + cleido- + mastoid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.