English
globule
Globule comes from Latin globulus ‘diminutive of globus’, and goes back to globus ‘globe’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobus‘globe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobulus‘diminutive of globus’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentglobule
- Englishearliest quotation 1704same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobus‘globe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobulus‘diminutive of globus’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentglobule
- Englishearliest quotation 1704same form
Earliest quotation: 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks: “Suppoſe now that in a fair Day the Sun…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’
children, child, cold, clean, cloud, chill, cluster, gel, jelly, colt, gelatin, clout, clot, gelato, clough, ganglion, glebe, klutz, clod, 49 more
through Latin globus ‘globe’
Today it means
noun A small round particle of substance; a drop.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin globus / globule