Etymograph

English

orbicula

Orbicula comes from Latin orbiculus ‘diminutive of orbis: a small disk’, and goes back to orbis.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEorbis‘a ring, disk, circle’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEorbiculus‘diminutive of orbis: a small disk’
  3. Englishtodayorbicula

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEorbis‘a ring, disk, circle’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEorbiculus‘diminutive of orbis: a small disk’
  3. Englishtodayorbicula

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- ‘to turn’

robot, bot, orphan, orbit, erf, 14 more

through Latin orbis ‘a ring, disk, circle’

orb, 5 more

Today it means

noun A dorsal sclerite over a hymenopteran arolium; a hard exoskeletal feature with species-specific shape that overhangs and protects the adhesive tip of such an insect's leg and around which the claw(s) curl. Abbreviation "or" or "rb".

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

Etymograph / Latin orbis / orbicula

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