Where does “bottlenose” come from?
Bottlenose comes from English bottle and English nose, ultimately from Latin nodus meaning knot and Latin ars meaning skill or craft.
bottlenose (English): bottlenose dolphin; bottlenose whale; bottlenose...
Definitions
- bottlenose dolphin; bottlenose whale; bottlenose...
Ancestry of “bottlenose”, step by step
bottlenose traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English bottle
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bottle | A container, typically made of glass or plastic... |
| 2 | English | bottle and glass | arse |
| 3 | English | arse | The buttocks or more specifically, the anus; A... |
| 4 | Middle English | ars | arse, anus; bottom, buttocks; plural of art |
| 5 | Old French | arz | — |
| 6 | Latin | artes | second-person singular present active subjunctive... |
| 7 | Latin | ars | art; skill, craft, handicraft, trade, power |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | artis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂értis | fitting |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |