cilia
Meaningeyelashes
Common meaning: tiny hair-like projections on cells
- cilian eyelidLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 331 · scan
- aLatin plural ending: things to be
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin cilium ‘an eyelid’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry cilium, p. 331 · dictionary scan
Roots
- cilium, -ī Latin “an eyelid”
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