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Latin
Etymology
From globulus + -lus or globus + -ellus. Likely influenced in its semantics by glomus (“ball of yarn”, cf. especially its diminutive *glomellus).
Attested- albeit as a hypothetical form- by Isidore in the passage quoted below, where he discusses the origin of lubellum. He apparently cites both forms with the ending -um, despite the masculine gender suggested by his own etymology.
Other manuscripts of Isidore's work have iubellum or gubellum (⟨g⟩ = ?) instead of lubellum, reflecting various palatalized outcomes of initial Latin /ɡl-/, continued in some of the Iberian descendants. The form lubellum is corroborated by the Liber Glossarum, published not long after Isidore's death.[1]
Noun
globellum ? (Late Latin)
- little ball (? presumably)
c. 600–625 CE, Isidore, Etymologiae:Lubellum corrupte a globo dictum per diminutionem, quasi globellum.- Lubellum is incorrectly used as a diminutive from globus, as if it were globellum.
Descendants
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
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