barbulatus

Translingual

Etymology

  • Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-
    Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂
    Proto-Italic *farβā
    Latin barba
    Proto-Indo-European *-lós
    Proto-Italic *-elos
    Latin -ulus
    Latin barbula
    Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
    Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
    Proto-Italic *-ātos
    Latin -atus
    Translingual barbulatus

    From Latin barbula (“small beard”) +‎ Latin -atus (“possessive adjective-forming suffix”).

    Adjective

    barbulatus m (feminine barbulata, neuter barbulatum)

    1. Used as a specific epithet; barbellate, covered in fine hairs or barbs.
      • 1915, Eden Phillpotts, My Shrubs (in English), page 96:
        Of tiny sub-shrubs, Pyxidanthera barbulata, from New Jersey, succeeded with me on a sunny rockery for a season.

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