renal etymology

English word renal comes from Latin ren

Detailed word origin of renal

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
ren Latin (lat) (anatomy) kidney. (this term almost always plural in (ancient) Latin. See B. L. Gildersleeve's Pg. 35, Oxford Latin Dictionary Pg. 1614).
renes Latin (lat)
renalis Late Latin (LL)
renal English (eng) Pertaining to the kidneys.

Words with the same origin as renal

Descendants of ren
reins