Etymograph

English

extrafoveal

From extra- + foveal.

Formed from extra- + foveal

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs ‘out’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros

Proto-Italic *eksteros

Latin exter ‘being on the outside’

Latin extrā ‘outside, except, beyond’

English extra-

Latin favissae ‘underground cellars’

Latin fovea ‘pit, hole in the ground’

Latin foveālis ‘of or pertaining to an ore-pit or ore-pits’

English foveal

Today it means

adj Outside the fovea.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / extrafoveal