The story
- Latin · derived fromuterus“womb”
- Latin · derived fromuterinus“pertaining to the womb; born of the same mother”
- Middle French · borrowed fromutérin
- English todayuterine
From Middle French utérin, from Latin uterinus (“pertaining to the womb; born of the same mother”), from Latin uterus (“womb”). Related to English uterus. By surface analysis, uter- + -ine.
Words from the same roots
Latinuterus all →
uterusutero-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.