Where does “granule” come from?
Granule comes from Late Latin granulum, a diminutive of Latin granum meaning grain, derived from Proto-Indo-European ǵr̥h₂nóm from the root ǵerh₂-.
granule (English): A tiny grain, a small particle; A small structure...
Definitions
- A tiny grain, a small particle; A small structure...
Ancestry of “granule”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | granule | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 2 | Latin | grānulum | granule (small grain) |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |