English
lanceolate
Lanceolate comes from Latin lanceolātus ‘armed with a lance’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElanceolātus‘armed with a lance’
- Englishearliest quotation 2011lanceolate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElanceolātus‘armed with a lance’
- Englishearliest quotation 2011lanceolate
Earliest quotation: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species: “The stone tools in these levels include Still Bay…”
Every English word from Latin lanceolātus
Today it means
adj Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lanceolātus / lanceolate