Etymology

rotifer

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Today it means: Any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum Rotifera, that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel. Full definition →

Latin rota ← Italian rotifero
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromrotifero
  2. Latin · derived fromrota“wheel”
  3. English todayrotifer

From Latin rota (“wheel”) + -fer (“-bearing”), after Italian rotifero.

Words from the same roots

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