Where does “rhopalium” come from?

rhopalium (English) comes from Ancient Greek ῥοπαλιον, from Ancient Greek ῥόπαλον, from Ancient Greek ῥέπω, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

rhopalium (English): One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae...

Definitions

  1. One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae...

Ancestry of “rhopalium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekῥοπαλιον
2Ancient Greekῥόπαλονclub, cudgel, mace shod with metal; hunter's...
3Ancient Greekῥέπωto incline one way or the other; to preponderate,...
4Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
5Proto-Hellenic*-os
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Ancient Greek -όςEvery word from Ancient Greek ῥέπω