Etymograph

English

nummulite

Nummulite comes from Latin nummulus ‘little coin’, from nummus ‘piece of money’, and ultimately from Doric Greek νοῦμμος ‘nummus, a coin used by the Romans’.

  1. Doric Greekmodernνοῦμμος‘nummus, a coin used by the Romans’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnummus‘piece of money’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnummulus‘little coin’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentnummulite
  5. Englishtodaynummulite

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Doric Greekmodernνοῦμμος‘nummus, a coin used by the Romans’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnummus‘piece of money’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnummulus‘little coin’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentnummulite
  5. Englishtodaynummulite

Equivalent to nummus + -ule + -ite

Proto-Indo-European *nem-

Doric Greek νοῦμμος ‘nummus, a coin used by the Romans’

Latin nummus ‘a coin, piece of money’

English nummus

Every English word from Doric Greek νοῦμμος

Today it means

noun A protozoan from the Tertiary period, known only as fossils.

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

Etymograph / Doric Greek νοῦμμος / nummulite

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