English
glomerous
Glomerous comes from Latin glomus ‘ball-shaped mass’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘ball-shaped mass’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomerosus
- Englishearliest quotation 1847glomerous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘ball-shaped mass’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomerosus
- Englishearliest quotation 1847glomerous
Earliest quotation: 1847, George Johnston, A History of the British Zoophytes: “The entire polypidom rarely exceeds half an inch in…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’
children, child, cold, clean, chill, cloud, globe, gel, jelly, cluster, colt, gelatin, clot, clout, gelato, clough, ganglion, glebe, klutz, clod, globulin, globus, 47 more
through Latin glomus ‘ball-shaped mass’
Today it means
adj Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin glomus / glomerous