English
infundibuliform
Infundibuliform comes from Latin īnfundibulum ‘funnel’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfundibulum‘funnel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1784infundibuliform
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfundibulum‘funnel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1784infundibuliform
Earliest quotation: 1784, William Marsden, The history of Sumatra: “This is a monopetalous, infundibuliform, white flower, of the…”
Every English word from Latin īnfundibulum
Today it means
adj having the shape of a funnel or cone.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin īnfundibulum / infundibuliform