Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed the globe in conglobate. The globe connection goes all the way back to Latin -- conglobate descends from the Latin verb conglobare, which in turn comes from the prefix con- (meaning with, together) and globus (meaning globe). Conglobare also means to form into a ball, and in the 16th century it gave us the word conglobe, of the same meaning. A century after conglobe first appeared in print, its cousin conglobate arrived on the scene. You may be wondering if the word glob is a relative too. Glob isn't linked directly to conglobate, but it does have a possible link to globe. Etymologists think that glob might have originated as a blend of globe and blob.