The story
- Latin · derived fromherbivorus
- French · borrowed fromherbivore
- English todayherbivore
From French herbivore, from Latin herbivorus. By surface analysis, herb (“herbage”) + -i- + -vore.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
herbivore
Today it means: An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet. Full definition →
French herbivore ← Latin herbivorus