Etymology

herbivorous

H4E1R1B3I1V4O1R1O1U1S1

Today it means: Feeding chiefly on plants. Full definition →

Latin herba
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromherba“grass”
  2. English todayherbivorous

Adapted borrowing of New Latin herbivorus + -ous, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to devour”).

Words from the same roots

Latinherba all →

herbarborherbage

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.