Etymology

brotulid

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Today it means: Any member of the Brotulidae. Full definition →

New Latin Brotula ← Spanish brótula
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived frombrótula“little bud”
  2. New Latin · derived fromBrotula
  3. English todaybrotulid

From New Latin Brotula + -id, from Spanish brótula (“little bud”), from brotón (“bud, sprout”) + -ula (“diminutive suffix”), from brotar (“to bud, sprout”) + -ón (“augmentative suffix”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.