globellum

Latin

Alternative forms
  • lubellum, iubellum, gubellum

Etymology

From globulus +‎ -lus or globus +‎ -ellus. Likely influenced in its semantics by glomus (“ball of yarn”, cf. especially its diminutive *glomellus).

Attested- albeit as a hypothetical form- by Isidore in the passage quoted below, where he discusses the origin of lubellum. He apparently cites both forms with the ending -um, despite the masculine gender suggested by his own etymology.

Other manuscripts of Isidore's work have iubellum or gubellum (⟨g⟩ = [d͡ʒ]?) instead of lubellum, reflecting various palatalized outcomes of initial Latin /ɡl-/, continued in some of the Iberian descendants. The form lubellum is corroborated by the Liber Glossarum, published not long after Isidore's death.[1]

Noun

globellum ? (Late Latin)

  1. little ball (? presumably)
    • c. 600–625 CE, Isidore, Etymologiae:
      Lubellum corrupte a globo dictum per diminutionem, quasi globellum.
      Lubellum is incorrectly used as a diminutive from globus, as if it were globellum.

Descendants
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Occitan: globel
  • Ibero-Romance:

References
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “ovillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 327
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