Etymograph

English

globule

Globule comes from Latin globulus ‘diminutive of globus’, and goes back to globus ‘globe’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobus1‘globe’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobulus1‘diminutive of globus’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentglobule1
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1704globule1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English globule
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks: “Suppoſe now that in a fair Day the Sun…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobusWiktionary, English globule‘globe’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglobulusWiktionary, English globule‘diminutive of globus’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentglobuleWiktionary, English globule
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1704globuleWiktionary, English globule. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks: “Suppoſe now that in a fair Day the Sun…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’

children, child, cold, clean, cloud, chill, cluster, gel, jelly, colt, gelatin, clout, clot, gelato, clough, ganglion, glebe, klutz, clod, 49 more

through Latin globus ‘globe’

globe, 6 more

Today it means

noun A small round particle of substance; a drop.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “globule”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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