Etymology

squama

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Today it means: A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium. Full definition →

Latin squāma
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromsquāma“scale”
  2. English todaysquama

Borrowed from Latin squāma (“scale”). Doublet of squame.

Words from the same roots

Latinsquāma all →

squamesquamellasquamoid

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