English
lithophyton
Lithophyton comes from Latin lithophyton.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElithophyton
- Englishearliest quotation 1646same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElithophyton
- Englishearliest quotation 1646same form
Earliest quotation: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “That Coral (which is a Lithophyton or stone-plant, and…”
Every English word from Latin lithophyton
Today it means
noun Coral.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lithophyton / lithophyton