English
fistulose
Fistulose comes from Latin fistulosus ‘pipe-shaped, full of holes, porous’, and goes back to fistula.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistulosus‘pipe-shaped, full of holes, porous’
- Englishearliest quotation 1844fistulose
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistulosus‘pipe-shaped, full of holes, porous’
- Englishearliest quotation 1844fistulose
Earliest quotation: 1844, James Edward Smith: “white , pileus subcarnose at length umbonate, gills close…”
Linked words
through Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube’
Today it means
adj Formed like a fistula; hollow; reed-like.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fistula / fistulose