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Possibly a blend of blob + gob or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, blob, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)
In the programming sense, originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob
; short for global.
In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
glob (plural globs)
glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)
Learned borrowing from Latin globus. Doublet of gleba and globus.
glob m inan
Borrowed from French globe, from Latin globus.
glob n (plural globuri)
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) glob | globul | (niște) globuri | globurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) glob | globului | (unor) globuri | globurilor |
vocative | globule | globurilor |
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glob c
Declension of glob | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | glob | globen | glober | globerna |
Genitive | globs | globens | globers | globernas |