English

forefemur

From fore- + femur.

Formed from fore- + femur

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Latin femur ‘thigh’

English femur

Today it means

noun The foremost part of the femur in the arthropod leg

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

Etymograph / forefemur