English
vascular
Vascular comes from Latin vasculum ‘a small vessel or container’, and goes back to vas.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvas‘vessel’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvasculum‘a small vessel or container’diminutive of vas
- New Latinc. 1500–1900vasculāris
- Englishearliest quotation 2013vascular
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvas‘vessel’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvasculum‘a small vessel or container’diminutive of vas
- New Latinc. 1500–1900vasculāris
- Englishearliest quotation 2013vascular
Earliest quotation: 2013, Nancy Langston, Mining the Boreal North: “Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters.…”
Linked words
through Latin vas ‘vessel’
Today it means
adj Relating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vas / vascular