The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromοὐρήθρα“the passage for urine”
- English todayurethra
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “the passage for urine”), from οὐρέω (ouréō, “to make water”). Recorded in English since 1634.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekοὐρήθρα all →
urethro-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.