English
vorticel
Vorticel comes from Latin vertō ‘to turn around, turn about’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertōas vortō‘to turn around, turn about’
- Englishtodayvorticel
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertōas vortō‘to turn around, turn about’
- Englishtodayvorticel
Formed from -el ‘diminutive suffix’
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, weird, worth, universe, ridiculous, ridicule, derision, invert, deride, derisive, wurst, extraversion, 54 more
through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’
adverse, diversion, inverse, transverse, inversion, aversion, perverse, averse, perversion, reversion, vertebra, evert, vertiginous, 37 more
through Latin vertō ‘to turn around, turn about’
university, version, conversation, diversity, versus, diverse, verse, divorce, vertical, advertisement, versatile, adversity, convertible, advert, divert, revert, pervert, vertex, diversification, avert, vortex, vertebrate, vertigo, subvert, introvert, vert, verso, perversity, 49 more
Today it means
noun Synonym of vorticella.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wert- / vorticel