Etymograph

English

atheroid

Atheroid comes from Ancient Greek ἀθήρ ‘beard or ear of grain’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀθήρathḗr‘beard or ear of grain’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1905atheroid

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀθήρathḗr‘beard or ear of grain’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1905atheroid

Earliest quotation: 1905, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury: “This genus occurs from the Silurian to the close…”

Every English word from Ancient Greek ἀθήρ

Another origin of atheroid

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-‘to put, place’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰé-dʰeh₁-tireconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*t(e/i)tʰēmireconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτίθημι‘to put, place, set’
  5. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἄθετοςáthetos‘not fixed’
  6. Englishtodayatheroid

Today it means

adj Shaped like an ear of grain.

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

Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἀθήρ / atheroid

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