Etymology

animalculum

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Today it means: Synonym of animalcule. Full definition →

Late Latin animalculum
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The story

  1. Late Latin · learned borrowing fromanimalculum
  2. English todayanimalculum

Learned borrowing from Late Latin animalculum.

Words from the same roots

Late Latinanimalculum all →

animalcule

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.