Etymology

coralline

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Today it means: Of, relating to or pertaining to or resembling red algae of the family Corallinaceae. Full definition →

French corallin ← Latin corallinus ← translingual Corallina
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  1. translingual · semantic loan fromCorallina
  2. Latin · derived fromcorallinus
  3. French · derived fromcorallin
  4. English todaycoralline

From French corallin, from Latin corallinus, from corallium (“coral”), via Greek probably of Semitic origin. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Corallina and related terms. By surface analysis, coral + -ine.

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