English
fistularioid
Fistularioid comes from Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube’
- Englishtodayfistularioid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube’
- Englishtodayfistularioid
Formed from Fistularia ‘genus of cornetfishes’ + -oid ‘resembling’
Linked words
through Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube’
Today it means
adj Resembling the genus Fistularia (cornetfishes); having a long, tubular body.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fistula / fistularioid