English
festucine
Festucine comes from Latin festula ‘stalk, straw’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfestula‘stalk, straw’
- Englishearliest quotation 1658festucine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfestula‘stalk, straw’
- Englishearliest quotation 1658festucine
Earliest quotation: 1658, Thomas Browne, Pſeudoxia Epidemica: or: “For here the true Cicada is not bred, but…”
The story
The chemical is called "festucine" because it is found in Festuca.
Every English word from Latin festula
Today it means
adj Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin festula / festucine