English
glome
Glome comes from Latin glomus ‘a ball’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘a ball’
- Englishtodayglome
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘a ball’
- Englishtodayglome
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’
children, child, cold, clean, chill, cloud, cluster, gel, jelly, globe, colt, gelatin, clout, clot, gelato, clough, ganglion, glebe, klutz, clod, globus, globulin, 47 more
through Latin glomus ‘a ball’
Today it means
noun One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin glomus / glome