Etymograph

English

greenshoe

From green + shoe, after the Green Shoe Manufacturing Company.

A compound of green + shoe

Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‘to grow’

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Proto-Germanic *grōniz

Proto-West Germanic *grōnī

Old English grēne

Middle English grene

English green

Proto-Germanic *skōhaz

Proto-West Germanic *skōh

Old English sċōh

Middle English scho ‘a shoe’

English shoe

Today it means

noun An option that allows underwriters to short-sell shares in a registered securities offering at the offering price.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / greenshoe