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Re:Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China by jcims on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:02PM (#20169802)
>take the seed of this κάνναβις

Thought it was strange that such an ancient word would closely match what we call it today... The etymology page on wikipedia credits that term as the origin of the modern word.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_cannabis

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Re:Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China by EForEndeavour on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:52PM (#20170549)
And it's definitely not alone: a huge amount of scientific nomenclature for organisms comes from Greek or Latin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_and_Greek_words_...
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