Etymograph

English

valve

Valve comes from Latin valva ‘double door, valve’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalva‘double door, valve’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500valve
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalva‘double door, valve’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500valve
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn, wind, round’

well, volume, walk, wall, revolution, evolution, involve, revolt, vault, vulgar, evolve, helix, waltz, convoluted, divulge, voluminous, gauche, vagrant, convolution, vulgate, iliac, wale, ilium, vulva, involution, voluble, valise, 76 more

through Latin valva ‘double door, valve’

valvular, 3 more

Today it means

noun A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.

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Etymograph / Latin valva / valve

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