English
pollinate
Pollinate comes from Latin pollen ‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollenas pollen‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
- Englishtodaypollinate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollenas pollen‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
- Englishtodaypollinate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘flour, dust’
film, felt, simple, simply, push, filter, complain, powder, pulse, repeal, fold, pillow, flaw, compulsive, expel, repel, palpable, propel, palladium, palate, palatable, pelt, peloton, pall, wallow, tuple, polemic, muffle, peplum, palatal, pulver, palp, apoplexy, pillion, interpolate, 63 more
through Latin pollen ‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
Today it means
verb To apply pollen to (a stigma).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pollen / pollinate