English
fibrilliform
Fibrilliform comes from Latin fibrilla ‘a fine fibre or filament’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfibrilla‘a fine fibre or filament’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979fibrilliform
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfibrilla‘a fine fibre or filament’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979fibrilliform
Earliest quotation: 1979, Dennis M. Lehmkuhl, Dubuque: “Homoeoneuria burrows in loose sand and feeds on material…”
Formed from fibrilla ‘a fine fibre or filament’ + -iform
Every English word from Latin fibrilla
Today it means
adj Having the appearance of a thin fibre or group of fibres; fibrous.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fibrilla / fibrilliform