Etymograph

English

Middlesex

Middlesex comes from Old English Middelseaxan.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150Middelseaxanliterally ‘Middle Saxons’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1958Middlesex

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150Middelseaxanliterally ‘Middle Saxons’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1958Middlesex

Earliest quotation: 1958, J. Spencer Gilks, Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1: “A station on the Middlesex bank [of the Thames]…”

Every English word from Old English Middelseaxan

Today it means

name A former inland county of England, partly absorbed into the erstwhile County of London in 1889; finally abolished in 1965 and absorbed mainly into Greater London, the south-west corner of the county becoming Spelthorne Borough and included in Surrey. The whole county, in whatever form, had the Thames as its southern boundary.

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

Etymograph / Old English Middelseaxan / Middlesex

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