English
bract
Bract comes from Latin bractea ‘a thin plate of metal’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbractea‘a thin plate of metal’
- Englishearliest quotation 1789bract
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbractea‘a thin plate of metal’
- Englishearliest quotation 1789bract
Earliest quotation: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants: “In this vegetable monster the bractes, or divisions of…”
Every English word from Latin bractea
Today it means
noun A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin bractea / bract