The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromθηλή“nipple”
- English todaythelium
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek θηλή (thēlḗ, “nipple”). By surface analysis, thel- + -ium.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekθηλή all →
thel-thelionthelitis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.