Etymograph

English

angle

Angle comes from Middle English angle, from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus ‘corner’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEangulus‘corner’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600angle
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1717same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEangulus‘corner’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600angle
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1717same form

Earliest quotation: 1717, John Dryden et al., (please specify |book=I to XV): “though but an angle reached him of the stone”.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng- ‘curve, bend’

ankle, 9 more

through Latin angulus ‘an angle’

angular, triangulation, 5 more

Another origin of angle

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eng-‘curve, bend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂engulosreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*angulosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEangulus‘an angle’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600angle
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
  7. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500anglen‘to meet at an angle, converge’
  8. Englishtodayangle

Another origin of angle

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂enk-‘to make crooked, bend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*angulaz‘hook’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*angulreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150angol‘fishhook’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500angel‘fishhook’
  6. Englishtodayangle

Another origin of angle

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂enk-‘curve, bend’uncertain
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*angulaz‘hook’uncertain
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*anguluncertain
  4. Proto-West Germanic, derivedc. 200–500 CE*anglōn‘to hook’uncertain
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150*anglian‘to hook’uncertain
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500anglen‘to fish, fish with a hook’literally ‘to fish-hook’
  7. Englishtodayangle

Today it means

noun A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).

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Etymograph / Latin angulus / angle

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