English
filatory
Filatory comes from Latin filatorium ‘place for spinning’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfilatorium‘place for spinning’
- Englishearliest quotation 1799filatory
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfilatorium‘place for spinning’
- Englishearliest quotation 1799filatory
Earliest quotation: 1799, William Tooke: “It [a silk manufactory] has 3 filatories, each of…”
Every English word from Latin filatorium
Today it means
noun A machine for forming threads.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin filatorium / filatory