English
Squarial
Blend of square + aerial.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr ‘four’
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Vulgar Latin *exquadrō
Vulgar Latin *exquadra
Old French esquarre ‘square’
Middle English square ‘a square’
English square
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ‘dawn’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér ‘in the direction of dawn, east’
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr ‘morning mist’
Ancient Greek ἀήρ ‘air’
Ancient Greek ἀέριος ‘in the mist or thick air of morning’
English aerial
Today it means
noun A flat, diamond-shaped aerial (antenna) for receiving satellite television signals; it became obsolete in the 1990s.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Squarial