The suffix "-oid" means the same as "quasi", so "resembling", "like". A *groupoid* is a quasi-group, like a group. From the "early use" <a href="https://jeff560.tripod.com/c.html">database</a> I find: 250 BC: conchoid 200 BC: cissoid 1672: ellipsoid 1685: cochleoid 1830: epicycloid 1836: paraboloid 1844: centroid 1872: geoid, gyroid 1878: nephroid 1879: deltoid 1881: prismatoid 1891: cuboid 1935: matroid