Etymograph

English

radula

Radula comes from Latin rādula ‘scraper’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *razdō.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*razdōreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādō‘to scrape’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErādula‘scraper’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2015radula

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*razdōreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādō‘to scrape’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErādula‘scraper’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2015radula

Earliest quotation: 2015, Asa H. Barber, Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth: “The radula end containing the first 5–10 rows of…”

Linked words

through Latin rādō ‘to scrape’

erase, abrasion, erasure, raster, raze, 11 more

Today it means

noun The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *razdō / radula

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