English
Exocet
Exocet comes from French Exocet ‘flying fish’, and goes back to Ancient Greek ἐξώκοιτος.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἐξώκοιτοςexṓkoitos‘a kind of fish resting on shore’
- New Latinmodernexocoetus
- Frenchc. 1600–presentExocet‘flying fish’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἐξώκοιτοςexṓkoitos‘a kind of fish resting on shore’
- New Latinmodernexocoetus
- Frenchc. 1600–presentExocet‘flying fish’
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of ἔξω ‘out, outside, without’ + κοῖτος ‘place of rest, bed’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out of’
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ ‘out’
Ancient Greek ἔξω ‘out, outside, without’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- ‘to lie down’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱéytor ‘to be lying flat’
Ancient Greek κεῖμαι ‘to lie down’
Ancient Greek κοῖτος ‘place of rest, bed’
Every English word from Ancient Greek ἐξώκοιτος
Today it means
noun A French antiship missile.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἐξώκοιτος / Exocet