English

globeholder

globe + holder

A compound of globe + holder

Latin globus ‘any round object’

Old French globe

Middle French globe

Middle English globe

English globe

Proto-Germanic *haldaną ‘to hold, to keep’

Proto-West Germanic *haldan ‘to hold’

Old English healdan ‘to hold fast, to grasp’

Middle English holden ‘to hold’

English hold

Today it means

noun A light fixture designed to accept a spherical bulb.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / globeholder