lint
English
/lɪnt/
noun
Definitions
- A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
- Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
- The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
- Raw cotton ready for baling.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lynet derived from Old French linette (grain of flax) derived from Latin līnum (flax, linen, string).
Origin
Latin
līnum
Gloss
flax, linen, string
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
麻
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- delint English
- delinter English
- head English
- linnet English
- linoleum English
- lintfree English
- linthead English
- linting English
- lintless English
- lintlessness English
- linty English
- linarius Latin
- liniger Latin
- linteum Latin
- līneola, līneolus Latin
- līnum Latin
- lino Italian
- lin French
- lino Spanish, Castilian
- *līno- Proto-Indo-European
- līnete Old English
- lynet Middle English
- linette Old French
- lli Catalan, Valencian
- in Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- lîn Norman
- линолеум Kazakh
- lynno Old Portuguese
- lỹo Old Portuguese
- ljin Aromanian
- lin Friulian
- lin Venetian