Medicine & BodyGreek → English
Skeleton
The bony framework of the body.
The Greek roots
σκελετός
skeletós
dried up
Literally: “a dried-up body”
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The story of the word
A skeletós was a 'dried-up' mummy or corpse — the word narrowed to the dry bones that remain.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The skeleton of a whale hung from the ceiling.