English
limbidium
Limbidium comes from Latin limbus ‘edge’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElimbus‘edge’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020limbidium
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElimbus‘edge’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020limbidium
Earliest quotation: 2020, Afroz Alam, Contemporary Research on Bryophytes: “The leaf margin, which consists of a band of…”
Formed from limbus ‘edge’ + -idium
Linked words
through Latin limbus ‘edge’
Today it means
noun A differentiated margin of the leaf of a moss.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin limbus / limbidium