English
Jurassic
Jurassic comes from French Jurassique.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentJurassique
- Englishearliest quotation 1910Jurassic
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentJurassique
- Englishearliest quotation 1910Jurassic
Earliest quotation: 1910, Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: “The Jurassic, the Spanish and the Italian federations and…”
The story
The -assic suffix was extracted from Triassic.
Every English word from French Jurassique
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French Jurassique / Jurassic