Globus

English word conglomerate¹ usually means “a company that owns several smaller businesses” or “a rock that consists of small rounded stones”. It is not difficult to understand these meanings, since the suffix con- here means “together”. Then what about the glomerate part?

This part glolerate is also an English word, meaning “conglomerate”, and comes from the Latin glomerō, meaning “I make into a ball” (cf. English agglomerate (which has the similar meanings)). Latin glomerō comes from glomus meaning “ball-shaped mass”, which is cognate with globus.

Globus means “a round object”, and has two nice descendants in English. One obvious descendant is the word globe. The other is hemoglobin, which is the combination of hemo (meaning “blood”, cf. hematophagy) and globus. Looking at the shape of the hemoglobin, this totally makes sense (I don’t know if they really have a round shape though).