Etymograph

English

haploid

From haplo- + -oid, Ancient Greek roots meaning, together, literally “simplex” or “onefoldlike”, from ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos, “single, simple”, literally “onefold”) and -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”).

A compound of haplo- + -oid

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Ancient Greek ἁπλόος ‘single, simple’

English haplo-

Today it means

adj Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism).

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

Etymograph / haploid