English
intertragic
From inter- + tragus + -ic.
Formed from inter- + tragus + -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’
Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’
Latin inter ‘between’
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub, turn’
Ancient Greek τράγω ‘to gnaw, nibble’
Ancient Greek τράγος ‘he-goat’
Late Latin tragus ‘the goatlike smell of the armpits’
English tragus
Today it means
adj Between the tragus and the antitragus of the external ear.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / intertragic