Etymograph

English

Imum Coeli

Imum Coeli comes from Latin imum coeli ‘bottom of the sky’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimum coeli‘bottom of the sky’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2006Imum Coeli

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimum coeli‘bottom of the sky’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2006Imum Coeli

Earliest quotation: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day: “Appropriately, perhaps, it would also be here that they…”

Today it means

noun The point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.

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

Etymograph / Latin imum coeli / Imum Coeli