gangrene
GANG-green · noun
Origin
English borrowed "gangrene" from French "gangrène", which came from Latin "gangraena", itself from Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina), meaning "gangrene".
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Journey
The word appears to have carried the same sense of dying, decaying flesh from Greek through Latin and French into English.