English
plasm
Plasm may come from Late Latin plasma ‘mold’.
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEplasma‘mold’by way of German Plasma, French plasmeuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1912plasm
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEplasma‘mold’by way of German Plasma, French plasmeuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1912plasm
Earliest quotation: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “And that the germ plasm is different from the…”
Every English word from Late Latin plasma
Today it means
noun Protoplasm.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Late Latin plasma / plasm