Greek τρισκελής (triskelḗs) means ' three-legged ' from τρι- (tri-), ' three times ' and σκέλος (skelos), ' leg '. While the Greek adjective τρισκελής ' three-legged ' (e.g. of a table) is ancient, use of the term for the symbol is modern, introduced in 1835 by Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes as French triskèle, and adopted in the spelling triskeles following Otto Olshausen (1886). The form triskelion (as it were Greek τρισκέλιον) is a diminutive which entered English usage in numismatics in the late-19th century. The form consisting of three human legs (as opposed to the triple spiral) has also been called a " triquetra of legs", also triskelos or triskel.