Where does “corollet” come from?
corollet (English) comes from English corolla, from Latin corōlla, from Latin corōna, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
corollet (English): A floret in an aggregate flower
Definitions
- A floret in an aggregate flower
Ancestry of “corollet”, step by step
corollet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English corolla
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | corolla | An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed... |
| 2 | Latin | corōlla | — |
| 3 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 4 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 5 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 7 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English et
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | et | and; simple past tense and past participle of eat |
| 2 | Middle English | et | — |
| 3 | Old English | æt | eating; at a certain place; at a certain time |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | āt | name |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | ētą | the act of eating; food |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | etaną | to eat |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁édti | to eat |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |