The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromξένος“foreign, of a stranger”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτρώγλη“hole”
- English todaytrogloxene
From Ancient Greek τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, of a stranger”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekτρώγλη all →
troglo-troglobite
Ancient Greekξένος all →
xenonxenophobicpyroxenexenophobeSino-Xenicxenacanthiformxenarthranxeno-xenogamyxenyl
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.