English
laminar
Laminar comes from Latin lāmina ‘thin sheet of material’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElāmina‘thin sheet of material’
- Englishearliest quotation 1973laminar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElāmina‘thin sheet of material’
- Englishearliest quotation 1973laminar
Earliest quotation: 1973, Thomas Pynchon: “On the wall, in an ornate fixture of darkening…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *stelh₃- ‘broad, to broaden’
through Latin lāmina ‘thin sheet of material’
Today it means
adj Of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lāmina / laminar