English
Tertullian
Tertullian comes from Latin Tertullianus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETertullianus
- Englishearliest quotation 1959Tertullian
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETertullianus
- Englishearliest quotation 1959Tertullian
Earliest quotation: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy): “And so the Malay C.P.O. listened, with a Tertullian…”
The story
Anglicized from Latin Tertullianus.
Every English word from Latin Tertullianus
Today it means
name A Roman cognomen, in particular borne by the Christian theologian Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus from Carthage.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Tertullianus / Tertullian