Etymograph

English

Orcus

Orcus comes from Latin Orcus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEOrcus
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1587–1588same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEOrcus
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1587–1588same form

Earliest quotation: c. 1587–1588, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […]: “Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench, And…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- ‘to hold, shut in’

ark, ogre, coercion, arcane, coerce, arcana, 3 more

Today it means

name The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.

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

Etymograph / Latin Orcus / Orcus

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