English
pulverine
Pulverine comes from Latin pulvis ‘dust, powder’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulvis‘dust, powder’
- Englishearliest quotation 1839pulverine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulvis‘dust, powder’
- Englishearliest quotation 1839pulverine
Earliest quotation: 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts: “Immersion in water would be apt to wash the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘flour, dust’
film, felt, simple, simply, push, filter, fold, complain, repeal, pulse, flaw, pollen, palate, expel, repel, palpable, palladium, propel, palatable, pall, pelt, compulsive, wallow, peloton, polemic, tuple, palatal, pollinate, muffle, apoplexy, peplum, palp, pillion, interpolate, 63 more
through Latin pulvis ‘dust, powder’
Today it means
noun ashes of barilla
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pulvis / pulverine