The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromοὐρήθρα“the passage for urine”
- English todayurethro-
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “the passage for urine”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekοὐρήθρα all →
urethra
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.