The story
- Latin · derived fromvulpinus“of a fox”
- English todaypulvinone
From pulvinic acid + -one. By surface analysis, pulvin- + -one, from anagram of vulpinic acid, from Latin vulpinus (“of a fox”), from vulpes.
Words from the same roots
Latinvulpinus all →
vulpinevulpinic acidvulpinous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.