English
squame
Squame comes from Latin squāma ‘scale’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāma‘scale’
- Englishearliest quotation 1928squame
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāma‘scale’
- Englishearliest quotation 1928squame
Earliest quotation: 1928, Journal of the Cancer Research Committee, Volume 1: “Here the invading cell masses of the cancer consist…”
Every English word from Latin squāma
Today it means
noun The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin squāma / squame