English
corneule
Corneule comes from New Latin corneolus ‘like or composed of horn, horny’.
- New Latinc. 1500–1900corneolusas corneola‘like or composed of horn, horny’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcornéule
- Englishearliest quotation 1856corneule
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- New Latinc. 1500–1900corneolusas corneola‘like or composed of horn, horny’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcornéule
- Englishearliest quotation 1856corneule
Earliest quotation: 1856, William Benjamin Carpenter: “Behind each “corneule" is a layer of dark pigment,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘horn’
cheer, hart, horn, cerebral, crater, grail, migraine, carotid, procrastinate, cerebellum, cairn, cranium, keratin, cerebrum, rother, 53 more
through Latin cornū ‘horn’
Today it means
noun One of the corneas of a compound eye in certain invertebrates.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / New Latin corneolus / corneule