Etymology

vomer

V4O1M3E1R1

Today it means: The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils. Full definition →

Latin vōmer
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromvōmer“ploughshare”
  2. English todayvomer

From Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.