English
ferula
Ferula comes from Latin ferula ‘giant fennel’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferula‘giant fennel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1613–1614same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferula‘giant fennel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1613–1614same form
Earliest quotation: 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: “He humbles with a ferula the tall ones”.
Linked words
through Latin festūca ‘stalk, straw’
Today it means
noun A ferule.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ferula / ferula