Etymograph

English

pollinosis

Pollinosis comes from Latin pollen ‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollen1as pollen, oblique stem‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
  2. Englishtodaypollinosis1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English pollinosis

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollenWiktionary, English pollinosisas pollen, oblique stem‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
  2. EnglishtodaypollinosisWiktionary, English pollinosis

Formed from -osis

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘flour, dust’

film, felt, simple, simply, push, filter, complain, powder, pulse, fold, repeal, pillow, flaw, palate, expel, repel, palpable, propel, compulsive, palatable, palladium, pelt, peloton, pall, wallow, tuple, palatal, polemic, muffle, peplum, pulver, palp, apoplexy, pillion, interpolate, 63 more

through Latin pollen ‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’

pollen, 5 more

Today it means

noun An allergy to grass and other pollen which causes cold symptoms in sufferers; hay fever.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pollinosis”. 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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