Etymology

globe

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Today it means: The eyeball. Full definition →

Middle English globe ← Middle French globe ← Old French globe
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromglobus
  2. Old French · derived fromglobe
  3. Middle French · derived fromglobe
  4. Middle English · inherited fromglobe
  5. English todayglobe

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

Words from the same roots

Latinglobus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.