Etymograph

English

epiphallus

From epi- + phallus.

Formed from epi- + phallus

Proto-Indo-European *h₁épi ‘on’

Proto-Hellenic *epí

Ancient Greek ἐπί ‘on, upon’

English epi-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to sound’

Ancient Greek φαλλός ‘penis’

Latin phallus ‘membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof’

English phallus

Today it means

noun In some orthopterans, a plate adjacent to the genital complex.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / epiphallus