English
globulin
Globulin comes from Latin globus ‘any round object’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobus‘any round object’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobulu
- Frenchc. 1600–presentglobule
- English1500–presentsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 1993globulin
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobus‘any round object’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobulu
- Frenchc. 1600–presentglobule
- English1500–presentsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 1993globulin
Earliest quotation: 1993, Teresa L. Wright, Clinical aspects of hepatitis B virus infection: “The most effective approach to delaying and preventing recurrent…”
A compound of globule + -in
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, glebe, ganglion, klutz, clod, 49 more
through Latin globus ‘any round object’
Today it means
noun Any of a group of simple proteins, soluble in water only in the presence of salts, that are coagulated by heat
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin globus / globulin