English
squamulose
Squamulose comes from Latin squamula ‘small scales’, and goes back to squāma.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāma‘scale of a fish or reptile’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquamula‘small scales’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900squāmulōsus
- Englishearliest quotation 2020squamulose
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāma‘scale of a fish or reptile’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquamula‘small scales’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900squāmulōsus
- Englishearliest quotation 2020squamulose
Earliest quotation: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: “Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens…”
The story
The English word is analysable as squamula + -ose.
Every English word from Latin squāma
Today it means
adj Having small scales.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin squāma / squamulose