English

homecage

From home + cage.

A compound of home + cage

Proto-Germanic *haimaz ‘home, village’

Proto-West Germanic *haim ‘home’

Old English hām ‘home’

Middle English hom ‘home’

English home

Proto-Italic *kawos

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Latin *caveus

Latin cavea ‘cage, den, enclosure, stall, coop, beehive,…’

Old French cage

Middle English cage ‘a cage or pen’

English cage

Today it means

noun A cage in which a laboratory animal lives, and in which it is experimented on.

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

Etymograph / homecage