Etymograph

English

Erasmus

Erasmus comes from Medieval Latin Erasmus, and goes back to Koine Greek Ἔρασμος.

  1. Koine Greekc. 300 BCE–600 CEἜρασμος
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500Erasmus
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Koine Greekc. 300 BCE–600 CEἜρασμος
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500Erasmus
  3. Englishtodaysame form

The story

The EU student exchange programme is named after Erasmus of Rotterdam, and also a backronym for “European [Community] Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.folk etymology The source marks this as unproven or a folk etymology. Quoted, not asserted.

Every English word from Koine Greek Ἔρασμος

Today it means

name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam), a Dutch humanist and theologian.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Koine Greek Ἔρασμος / Erasmus

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