Where does “crab-like rove beetle” come from?

crab-like rove beetle (English) comes from English rove beetle, from English Rove, from English rōw, from English roll, from Middle English rolle, from Old French rolle, from Medieval Latin rotulus, from Latin rotula — ingot.

crab-like rove beetle (English): Any rove beetle in the subfamily Tachyporinae

Definitions

  1. Any rove beetle in the subfamily Tachyporinae

Ancestry of “crab-like rove beetle”, step by step

crab-like rove beetle traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English rove beetle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishrove beetleAny of various carnivorous or scavenging beetles of the family Staphylinidae that are often found in decaying matter and have slender bodies and short wing covers
2EnglishRoveTo shoot with arrows (at)
3EnglishrōwA line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc
4EnglishrollTo cause to revolve by turning over and over; to...
5Middle Englishrolle
6Old Frenchrolleregistration
7Medieval Latinrotulusa roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, a...
8Latinrotulaa small wheel; roll
9Arabicرَطْل
10Classical Syriacܪܝܛܠܐ
11Classical Syriacܠܝܛܪܐlibra, pound
12Frenchlitrelitre
13Medieval Latinlitra
14Ancient Greekλίτραlitra, a Sicilian silver coin; libra, a unit of...
15Proto-Italic*līðrāingot

via English crab-like

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishcrab-like
Every word from Proto-Italic *līðrā