English
vorticel
Vorticel comes from Latin vertō ‘to turn around, turn about’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-1‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō1‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō2as vortō‘to turn around, turn about’
- Englishtodayvorticel3
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin verto
- 2 Wiktionary, Latin vortex
- 3 Wiktionary, English vorticel
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-Wiktionary, Latin verto‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertōWiktionary, Latin verto‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertōWiktionary, Latin vortexas vortō‘to turn around, turn about’
- EnglishtodayvorticelWiktionary, English vorticel
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, weird, worth, universe, ridiculous, ridicule, derision, invert, deride, derisive, wurst, extraversion, 54 more
through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’
adverse, diversion, inverse, transverse, inversion, aversion, perverse, averse, perversion, reversion, vertebra, evert, 37 more
through Latin vertō ‘to turn around, turn about’
university, version, conversation, diversity, versus, diverse, verse, divorce, vertical, advertisement, versatile, adversity, convertible, advert, divert, revert, pervert, vertex, diversification, avert, vortex, vertebrate, vertigo, subvert, introvert, vert, verso, perversity, 48 more
Today it means
noun Synonym of vorticella.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “vorticel”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin verto, Latin vortex. 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.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wert- / vorticel