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globus.

ball, sphere; dense mass, close packed throng, crowd; clique, band; globe;

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈɡɫɔ.bʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈɡlɔː.bus]
  1. any round object; a sphere; a globe

    declension-2 · masculine
  2. a glob, group

    declension-2 · masculine
Where this word comes from

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”), but if so it may have to be via some substrate loan which was also absorbed by other Indo-European branches, based on the unexplained suffix and variants. Apparently cognate with Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”) (see there for more), glomus, Sanskrit ग्लुन्थ (gluntha, “lump”), and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), but the derivational morphologies of all such words are uncertain. Likely sound-symbolic in any case.

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