English
Verulam
Verulam comes from Latin Verulamium, and goes back to Proto-Brythonic *Uerulāmos ‘of the broad hand’.
- Proto-Brythonicc. 100 BCE–500 CE*Uerulāmos‘of the broad hand’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEVerulamiumas Verulamia
- Englishearliest quotation 1842Verulam
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Brythonicc. 100 BCE–500 CE*Uerulāmos‘of the broad hand’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEVerulamiumas Verulamia
- Englishearliest quotation 1842Verulam
Earliest quotation: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art: “Plato the wise, and large-brow'd Verulam, / The first…”
The story
Latin Verulamia, being the name of the Roman settlement on the same site.
Every English word from Proto-Brythonic *Uerulāmos
Today it means
name Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Brythonic *Uerulāmos / Verulam