The story
- Latin · derived fromvitreus“vitreous”
- English todayvitrain
From Latin vitreus (“vitreous”) + -ain in fusain; compare French -ain (“-ane”). Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.
Words from the same roots
Latinvitreus all →
vitreousvitreo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.