myEtymology.com: French etymology of placenta

Etymology of the French word placenta

the French word placenta

derived from the Latin word placenta (a flat cake; cake; kind of flat cake)

derived from the Greek word plakous, πλακούς (a flat cake)

derived from the Greek word plax, πλάξ (anything flat; a moulding-board; flat surface ('plate', or tablet, literally or figuratively))

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *plāk-

Dutch placenta, English placenta, German Plazenta, Swedish placenta