Etymograph

English

adnate

Adnate comes from Latin adnatus, from agnascor ‘born or growing at or upon’, and ultimately from gnāscor.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgnāscor
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagnascor‘born or growing at or upon’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadnatuspast participle of variant form of agnascor
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1889adnate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgnāscor
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagnascor‘born or growing at or upon’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadnatuspast participle of variant form of agnascor
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1889adnate

Earliest quotation: 1889, John Gilbert Baker, Handbook of the Bromeliaceae: “The ovary is more adnate to the calyx than…”

Every English word from Latin gnāscor

Today it means

adj Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate.

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Etymograph / Latin gnāscor / adnate

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