Where does “epupillate” come from?
epupillate (English) comes from English pupillate, from English pupil, from Middle English pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla, from Latin pupula, from Latin pupa, from Latin pupus — few, little; smallness.
epupillate (English): Not pupillate
Definitions
- Not pupillate
Ancestry of “epupillate”, step by step
epupillate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pupillate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pupillate | Having a central spot of another color, like the pupil of the human eye |
| 2 | English | pupil | A learner under the supervision of a teacher or... |
| 3 | Middle English | pupille | — |
| 4 | Old French | pupille | orphan |
| 5 | Latin | pūpilla | — |
| 6 | Latin | pupula | pupil; little lass |
| 7 | Latin | pupa | girl, little girl; doll, puppet; pupa |
| 8 | Latin | pupus | a boy, a child; a puppet; the pupil of the eye |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂w- | few, little; smallness |
via English E
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | E | The ordinal number fifth, derived from this... |
| 2 | Old English | E | — |
| 3 | Latin | E | Scribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae |
| 4 | Etruscan | 𐌄 | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ε | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was εἶ, later ἒ ψιλόν, and presently έψιλον. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by δ and foll |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤄 | that |
| 7 | Egyptian | 𓀠 | — |