FromProto-Indo-European*h₁órǵʰis(“testicle”). Cognates includeOld Armenianորձիք(orjikʻ,“idem”),Avestan𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬌(ər^əzi),Hittite[script needed](arkiš),Albanianherdhe, andIrishuirghe.^[1]

The "orchid" sense is likely for the characteristically oblong shape of the plant's roots.

ὄρχις• (órkhis) m orf (genitiveὄρχεωςorὄρχῐος);third declension

1. (masculine, often plural)testicle
2. (masculine)ovary
3. (feminine)orchid
4. (feminine) a type ofolive

• ὀρχίδιον(orkhídion)
• ὀρχιπεδίζω(orkhipedízō)

• ⇒ Byzantine Greek:ὀρχίδιον(orkhídion)
  • Greek:αρχίδι(archídi)
• → Greek:όρχις m(órchis)
• → Latin:orchis (see there for further descendants)
• → English:orchi-
• → Italian:orchi-

• “ὄρχις”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄρχις”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄρχις inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὄρχις inTrapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007),Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• ὄρχις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese),University of Chicago, since 2011

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