ichor

Meaning

Noun

• The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.

Origin

• Sense 1 (“liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods”) is borrowed from Medieval Latin ichor, from Ancient Greek ῑ̓χώρ; further etymology unknown, probably from Pre-Greek.
• Sense 2.4 (“fetid, watery discharge from a sore”) is from Middle English icor, icore, from Medieval Latin ichor; see further above.