Etymograph

English

lycotoxin

Lycotoxin comes from mul Lycosa.

  1. mulmodernLycosa
  2. Englishtodaylycotoxin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. mulmodernLycosa
  2. Englishtodaylycotoxin

A compound of translingual Lycosa + toxin

Latin toxicum ‘a poison used on the tips of arrows’

English toxin

Today it means

noun Any of a group of peptidic toxins present in the venom of wolf spiders of the genus Lycosa.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / mul Lycosa / lycotoxin