English
glomerate
Glomerate comes from Latin glomerātus ‘glomerated, piled, heaped, having been made…’, and goes back to glomus ‘a roughly spherical mass’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomusas glomeris‘a roughly spherical mass’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomero‘to glomerate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomerātus‘glomerated, piled, heaped, having been made into a ball’perfect passive participle of glomero
- Englishtodayglomerate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomusas glomeris‘a roughly spherical mass’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomero‘to glomerate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomerātus‘glomerated, piled, heaped, having been made into a ball’perfect passive participle of glomero
- Englishtodayglomerate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’
children, child, cold, clean, cloud, chill, globe, gel, jelly, cluster, colt, clout, clot, gelatin, clough, gelato, ganglion, glebe, klutz, clod, globus, globulin, 47 more
Today it means
verb To gather or curl into a ball; to collect (threads, etc.) into a spherical form or mass.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin glomus / glomerate