The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτροχίλος
- Latin · borrowed fromtrochilus“a kind of small bird”
- English todaytrochilus
From Latin trochilus (“a kind of small bird”), from Ancient Greek τροχίλος (trokhílos), from τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”).
Words from the same roots
Latintrochilus all →
trochil
Ancient Greekτροχίλος all →
trochilictrochilics
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.