English
cumuliform
Cumuliform comes from Latin cumulus ‘heap’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulus‘heap’
- Englishtodaycumuliform
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulus‘heap’
- Englishtodaycumuliform
Formed from -iform
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- ‘to swell’
church, jail, cave, cage, kirk, cavity, excavation, hound, cyst, gaol, excavate, cajole, cavil, caul, 41 more
Today it means
adj Having the shape of a cumulus cloud.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cumulus / cumuliform