English
valvule
Valvule comes from Latin valvula ‘valve, little valve’, and goes back to valva.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalva‘double door, valve’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalvula‘valve, little valve’by way of French valvule
- Englishtodayvalvule
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalva‘double door, valve’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalvula‘valve, little valve’by way of French valvule
- Englishtodayvalvule
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn, wind, round’
well, walk, wall, volume, revolution, evolution, involve, revolt, evolve, vault, helix, waltz, vulgar, convoluted, voluminous, vagrant, divulge, gauche, convolution, iliac, ilium, wale, involution, vulgate, voluble, vulva, valise, 76 more
through Latin valva ‘double door, valve’
Today it means
noun A small valve.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin valva / valvule