Etymology

aril

A1R1I1L1

Today it means: A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates. Full definition →

New Latin arillus ← Medieval Latin arilli
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Medieval Latin · derived fromarilli
  2. New Latin · derived fromarillus
  3. English todayaril

1785. From New Latin arillus (compare modern French arille and the English doublet arillus), from Medieval Latin arilli.

Words from the same roots

New Latinarillus all →

arillus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.