English
gleba
Gleba comes from Latin glaeba ‘lump, mass’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglaebaas glēba‘lump, mass’
- Englishtodaygleba
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglaebaas glēba‘lump, mass’
- Englishtodaygleba
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘to form into a ball’
children, child, cold, clean, cloud, chill, cluster, globe, gel, jelly, colt, clout, clot, gelatin, clough, gelato, ganglion, clod, klutz, globus, globulin, 47 more
through Latin glaeba ‘lump, mass’
Today it means
noun The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin glaeba / gleba