Where does “Saccorhytus” come from?

Saccorhytus (Translingual) comes from Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek σάκκος — sack; sackcloth; sackcloth vestment, penitential...

Saccorhytus (Translingual): genus|a one-millimeter long bottom-dwelling aquatic creature, known from a fossil dated 540 million years ago, mistakenly thought the earliest known deuterostomes, which group includes all vertebrates}}. It is actually an ecdysozoan, a type of protostome

Definitions

  1. genus|a one-millimeter long bottom-dwelling aquatic creature, known from a fossil dated 540 million years ago, mistakenly thought the earliest known deuterostomes, which group includes all vertebrates}}. It is actually an ecdysozoan, a type of protostome

Ancestry of “Saccorhytus”, step by step

Saccorhytus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin saccus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsaccussack, bag; purse, wallet, moneybag; garment of...
2Ancient Greekσάκκοςsack; sackcloth; sackcloth vestment, penitential...

via Ancient Greek ῥυτίς

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekῥυτίςa fold or pucker in the face, wrinkle
Every word from Ancient Greek σάκκοςEvery word from Latin saccus