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- Ancient Greek · derived fromστόμα“mouth”
- English todaystomodeum
From Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”) + a latinized and nominalized form of Ancient Greek ὁδαῖος (hodaîos, “on the way”). Compare proctodeum, urodeum, coprodeum, and phallodeum.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekστόμα all →
ancylostomafistuloenterostomylipostomystomato--stome
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.