English
clade
Clade comes from Ancient Greek κλάδος ‘shoot, branch’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκλάδοςkládos‘shoot, branch’
- Englishearliest quotation 2001clade
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκλάδοςkládos‘shoot, branch’
- Englishearliest quotation 2001clade
Earliest quotation: 2001, Ross H. Nehm, Jeremy B. C. Jackson: “All three clades containing Prunum and “Volvarina” species contain…”
The story
Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- ‘to beat’
coup, holly, clerk, holt, clergy, clerical, cleric, calamity, gladiator, calamitous, clematis, gladiolus, 29 more
Today it means
noun A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek κλάδος / clade