Where does “multisulcate” come from?
multisulcate (English) comes from English multi, from English multituberculate, from English tuberculate, from Latin tuberculatus, from Latin tūberculum, from Latin tūber, from Proto-Italic tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European tewh₂- — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
multisulcate (English): Having many grooves
Definitions
- Having many grooves
Ancestry of “multisulcate”, step by step
multisulcate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English multi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 2 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 3 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 4 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 5 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 6 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |
via English sulcate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sulcate | Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows |
| 2 | Latin | sulcatus | ploughed; sulcate |
| 3 | Latin | sulco | I plough, furrow, turn up; I carve, cleave; I... |
| 4 | Latin | sulcus | furrow; ploughing |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | solkos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | selk- | to pull, drag; to drag, to furrow; to pull, draw |