Where does “globe” come from?

Globe comes from Old French globe, from Latin globus meaning a round mass or sphere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gel- meaning to ball up or wind into a sphere.

globe (English): Any spherical object; The planet Earth; A...

Definitions

  1. Any spherical object; The planet Earth; A...

Ancestry of “globe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishglobe
2Middle Frenchgloberoll; globe
3Old Frenchglobe
4Latinglobusany round object; a sphere; a globe; a glob,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeangel-to be cold, to freeze

Words derived from “globe

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gel-