English
pollen
Pollen comes from Latin pollen ‘fine flour’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollen‘fine flour’
- Englishearliest quotation 1523–1525pollen
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollen‘fine flour’
- Englishearliest quotation 1523–1525pollen
Earliest quotation: 1523–1525, John Bourchier, Froissart's Chronicles: “and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,[…]as well of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘flour, dust’
film, felt, simply, simple, push, filter, complain, pulse, powder, repeal, fold, pillow, flaw, palate, compulsive, expel, repel, propel, palladium, palpable, pelt, palatable, peloton, pall, wallow, palatal, peplum, pulver, tuple, palp, muffle, polemic, pillion, apoplexy, interpolate, 63 more
through Latin pollen ‘fine flour’
Today it means
noun A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pollen / pollen