English
hamous
Hamous comes from Latin hamus ‘hook’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhamus‘hook’
- Englishearliest quotation 1665hamous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhamus‘hook’
- Englishearliest quotation 1665hamous
Earliest quotation: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia: “I am very apt to think, that the tenacity…”
Formed from -ous
Every English word from Latin hamus
Today it means
adj Hamose.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin hamus / hamous