English
vomer
Vomer comes from Latin vōmer ‘ploughshare’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvōmer‘ploughshare’
- Englishearliest quotation 1925vomer
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvōmer‘ploughshare’
- Englishearliest quotation 1925vomer
Earliest quotation: 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, Chapter 1: “Only in the Chelonia (Fig. 32 b) are the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to move’
way, always, via, vehicle, wave, reveal, halfway, vector, weigh, wagon, wee, vein, veil, wedge, vogue, headway, wag, venous, vex, wonky, eunuch, vena, wey, invective, waw, wain, velar, 39 more
Today it means
noun The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vōmer / vomer