Etymograph

English

valvule

Valvule comes from Latin valvula ‘valve, little valve’, and goes back to valva.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalva1‘double door, valve’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalvula1‘valve, little valve’by way of French valvule
  3. Englishtodayvalvule1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English valvule

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalvaWiktionary, English valvule‘double door, valve’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvalvulaWiktionary, English valvule‘valve, little valve’by way of French valvule
  3. EnglishtodayvalvuleWiktionary, English valvule

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn, wind, round’

well, walk, wall, volume, revolution, evolution, involve, revolt, evolve, vault, helix, waltz, vulgar, convoluted, voluminous, vagrant, divulge, gauche, convolution, iliac, ilium, wale, involution, vulgate, voluble, vulva, valise, 75 more

through Latin valva ‘double door, valve’

valve, 3 more

Today it means

noun A small valve.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “valvule”. 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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