The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromθύλακος“pouch, sack”
- translingual · derived fromThylacinus
- English todaythylacine
From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekθύλακος all →
thylakoid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.