Etymograph

English

antenna

Antenna comes from Latin antenna ‘yard, sailyard’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEantennaas antenna‘yard, sailyard’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2006same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEantennaas antenna‘yard, sailyard’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2006same form

Earliest quotation: 2006, Timothy Duane Schowalter, Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach: “The overall shape of most insect antennae is elongate…”

first attested First used in this sense as a Latin word in the 15th century and as an English word by the end of the 17th century (as stated in the etymology)

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *temp- ‘to stretch, extend’

temperature, temporary, temple, temper, template, tempo, tense, templar, tamper, contemplation, matin, tempura, 28 more

Today it means

noun An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin antenna / antenna

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