The story
- Latin · derived fromglandulae“glands of the throat”
- French · borrowed fromglandulaire
- English todayglandular
Mid 18th century borrowing from French glandulaire, from glandule (“small gland”) + -aire (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix), from Latin glandulae (“glands of the throat”); equivalent to glandule + -ar.
Words from the same roots
Latinglandulae all →
gland
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.