English
carotid
Carotid may come from French carotide.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcarotideuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2013carotid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcarotideuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2013carotid
Earliest quotation: 2013, Hannibal: “I shoot Mr. Marlow twice, severing jugulars and cartoids…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘head’
horn, hart, cerebral, crater, grail, migraine, corny, cornea, cornet, cerebellum, cranium, cairn, procrastinate, keratin, cerebrum, rother, 52 more
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n- ‘top of the head/skull’
Today it means
noun Either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch suppl
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French carotide / carotid