English
ecotype
From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.
Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- ‘to enter in, settle’
Proto-Indo-European *wóyḱos ‘settlement’
Proto-Hellenic *wóikos ‘a settlement’
Ancient Greek οἶκος ‘house, household’
English eco-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ‘to push’
Ancient Greek τύπτω ‘to strike’
Ancient Greek τύπος ‘mark’
Latin typus
Middle English type ‘symbol’
English type
The story
From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.
Today it means
noun A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “ecotype”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / ecotype