English
flabel
Flabel comes from Latin flabellum ‘a fan’, from flabrum ‘a breeze’, and ultimately from flō ‘to blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabrum‘a breeze’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabellum‘a fan’diminutive of flabrum
- Englishearliest quotation 1621flabel
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabrum‘a breeze’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabellum‘a fan’diminutive of flabrum
- Englishearliest quotation 1621flabel
Earliest quotation: 1621, Tobias Venner, A Briefe and Accurate Treatise: “Moreouer, the lungs which are the flabell of the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, fluent, flux, feeble, confluence, fluency, blithely, fluvial, blare, bleat, blather, blasé, 44 more
through Latin flō ‘to blow’
inflation, flavor, inflate, flatulence, soufflé, conflate, 17 more
Today it means
noun A fan or flabellum.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / flabel