Etymograph

English

Jacobin

Jacobin comes from Latin Jācōbus ‘James, Jacob, etc’, and goes back to Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב.

  1. Biblical Hebrewc. 1000–200 BCEיַעֲקֹבYa'akóv
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἸάκωβοςIákōbos
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEJācōbus‘James, Jacob, etc’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEJācōbīnus
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400jacobin
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Jacobin
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2002same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Biblical Hebrewc. 1000–200 BCEיַעֲקֹבYa'akóv
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἸάκωβοςIákōbos
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEJācōbus‘James, Jacob, etc’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEJācōbīnus
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400jacobin
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Jacobin
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2002same form

Earliest quotation: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: “The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group,…”

The story

In reference to the Dominican Order, from the proximity of their 1218 chapel and chapter house in Paris to the city's Porte Saint-Jacques, whose road formed an extension of the Way of St. James running to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Every English word from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב

Today it means

noun Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.

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

Etymograph / Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב / Jacobin

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