English
araneous
Araneous comes from Latin araneosus ‘full of cobwebs or spider's webs’, and goes back to aranea.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaranea‘spider, spider's web’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaraneosus‘full of cobwebs or spider's webs’
- Englishearliest quotation 1713araneous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaranea‘spider, spider's web’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaraneosus‘full of cobwebs or spider's webs’
- Englishearliest quotation 1713araneous
Earliest quotation: 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology: Or: “The next thing I shall take notice, of will…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
order, reason, ready, art, article, rate, army, artist, arm, ordinary, ratio, alarm, harmony, coordination, coordinate, armor, arthritis, subordinate, ordination, articulate, ornament, arithmetic, ornate, harmonic, anarchy, adorn, inertia, aristocratic, articulation, ordinate, artisan, inert, armament, ordinator, harmonious, ordinal, rta, armadillo, harmonize, rime, 80 more
through Latin aranea ‘spider, spider's web’
Today it means
adj Extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin aranea / araneous