English
flabellinerved
Flabellinerved comes from Latin flābrum ‘breeze’, and goes back to flō ‘to breathe, blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to breathe, blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflābrum‘breeze’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabellum
- Englishtodayflabellinerved
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to breathe, blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflābrum‘breeze’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabellum
- Englishtodayflabellinerved
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-
blow, blast, bliss, flux, fluent, bladder, feeble, confluence, fluency, fluvial, blare, blithely, bleat, blasé, blather, 44 more
through Latin flō ‘to breathe, blow’
inflation, flavor, inflate, flatulence, conflate, soufflé, 17 more
Today it means
adj Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / flabellinerved