English
valvular
Valvular comes from Latin valvula ‘diminutive of valva: valve, especially a…’, and goes back to valva.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalva‘double door, valve’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalvula‘diminutive of valva: valve, especially a valvule or small valve’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900valvulāris
- Englishearliest quotation 1997valvular
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalva‘double door, valve’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalvula‘diminutive of valva: valve, especially a valvule or small valve’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900valvulāris
- Englishearliest quotation 1997valvular
Earliest quotation: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: “It was Charles Sherrington (1857–1952) who named that valvular…”
Equivalent to valvula + -ar
Latin valva ‘double door, valve’
Latin valvula ‘diminutive of valva: valve, especially a…’
English valvula
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn, wind, round’
well, walk, wall, volume, revolution, evolution, involve, revolt, evolve, vault, helix, waltz, convoluted, vulgar, voluminous, vagrant, divulge, gauche, convolution, wale, iliac, ilium, involution, vulgate, voluble, vulva, valise, 76 more
through Latin valva ‘double door, valve’
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to valves, such as those of the heart.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin valva / valvular