The story
- Latin · derived fromvitreus“glassy, transparent”
- Middle French · derived fromvitreux
- English todayvitreo-
From vitreous, from Middle French vitreux, from Latin vitreus (“glassy, transparent”), from vitrum (“glass”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Frenchvitreux all →
vitreous
Latinvitreus all →
vitreousvitrain
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.