embolus

Meaning

1. masculinepiston
2. Medieval Latinmasculinealley, back street
3. New Latinmasculinegunstick, ramrod
   تفنك چبوغی tüfenk ćiubughy. Embolus, bacillus immisorius, virga stipatoria, quâ inculcatur farsum. Ladstecke / Ladstab. La bachetta. La baguette. Sztępel.—1680, Franciszek à Mesgnien Meninski, “embolus”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum (in Ottoman Turkish, Turkish, Latin, German, Italian, French, and Polish), Vienna, column 1297:
4. New Latinmasculineany foreign body, especially a migrated thrombus, that travels through the blood vessels, such that it becomes lodged

Declension

Origins

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
2. Ancient Greek ἐν(en)
3. Ancient Greek ἐμ-(em-)
4. Latinembolus

Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der. Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō) Ancient Greek ἐμβάλλω (embállō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos)bor. Latin embolus Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos).