Where does “globe” come from?

globe (French) comes from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, from Latin globus, from Proto-Indo-European gel- — to be cold, to freeze.

globe (French): globe

Definitions

  1. globe

Ancestry of “globe”, step by step

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

Words derived from “globe

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gel-