Etymograph

English

Patrick

Patrick comes from Latin Patricius ‘patrician’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEPatricius‘patrician’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Patrick
  4. Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEPatricius‘patrician’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Patrick
  4. Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602same form

Earliest quotation: c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: “Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, And…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’

food, company, father, pain, feed, pope, foster, pattern, apparent, fur, companion, pastor, papa, penetration, fodder, fad, pasture, forage, accompaniment, patron, perpetrator, ayr, paternity, paternal, padre, panini, père, pav, perpetrate, compere, pater, pantaloons, pannier, 63 more

Today it means

name A male given name.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- / Patrick

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