Etymograph

English

funiculus

Funiculus comes from Latin funiculus ‘a slender rope, cord’, and goes back to funis.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfunis‘rope, cord’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfuniculus‘a slender rope, cord’diminutive of funis
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfunis‘rope, cord’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfuniculus‘a slender rope, cord’diminutive of funis
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- ‘to bind’

band, bond, bend, banner, bind, bundle, bonnet, tulip, bund, 22 more

Today it means

noun Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres (white matter) in the spinal cord. The white matter of the spinal cord is made of (posterior, anterior and lateral) columns/funiculi. The grey columns are also called horns but not funiculi.

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Etymograph / Latin funis / funiculus

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