English
radial
Radial comes from Latin radius ‘the radius of a circle’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEradius‘the radius of a circle’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500radiālis
- Englishearliest quotation 1976radial
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEradius‘the radius of a circle’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500radiālis
- Englishearliest quotation 1976radial
Earliest quotation: 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network: “Let me have my toaster and my TV and…”
Linked words
through Latin radius ‘the radius of a circle’
Today it means
adj Arranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to, a common centre.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin radius / radial