English
dextrorse
Dextrorse comes from Latin dextrōrsus ‘towards the right side, to the right’, and goes back to versus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEversus‘toward’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdextrōrsusas dextrovorsum‘towards the right side, to the right’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdextrorsum
- Englishearliest quotation 1907dextrorse
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEversus‘toward’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdextrōrsusas dextrovorsum‘towards the right side, to the right’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdextrorsum
- Englishearliest quotation 1907dextrorse
Earliest quotation: 1907, John Arthur Thomson, William Dawson Henderson: “They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are…”
Linked words
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Today it means
adj Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin versus / dextrorse