English

intercentrum

From inter- + centrum.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom ‘pointed tool’

Proto-Hellenic *kéntron

Ancient Greek κέντρον ‘sharp point’

Latin centrum ‘center’

Middle English centrum

Today it means

noun The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.

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

Etymograph / intercentrum