Etymology

dorsum

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Today it means: The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. Full definition →

Latin dorsum
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromdorsum
  2. Latin · learned borrowing fromdorsum
  3. English todaydorsum

Learned borrowing from Latin dorsum (“the back”).

Words from the same roots

Latindorsum all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.