Etymograph

English

globin

Globin comes from Latin globus ‘any round object’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobus‘any round object’
  2. Germanc. 1650–presentGlobin
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2005globin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobus‘any round object’
  2. Germanc. 1650–presentGlobin
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2005globin

Earliest quotation: 2005, Sharon G. Childs, Rhabdomyolysis: “Injuries and conditions that cause an acid pH environment…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’

children, child, cold, clean, cloud, chill, cluster, gel, jelly, colt, clout, clot, gelatin, gelato, clough, ganglion, glebe, klutz, clod, 47 more

through Latin globus ‘any round object’

globe, globus, globulin, 4 more

Today it means

noun Any globular protein that incorporates a globin fold.

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

Etymograph / Latin globus / globin

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