English
abjunctive
Abjunctive comes from Latin abiūnctus ‘removed, separated, detached’, and goes back to abiungō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabiungō‘remove, separate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabiūnctus‘removed, separated, detached’past participle of abiungō
- Englishearliest quotation 1883abjunctive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEabiungō‘remove, separate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabiūnctus‘removed, separated, detached’past participle of abiungō
- Englishearliest quotation 1883abjunctive
Earliest quotation: 1883, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening: “It is this power which leads on always from…”
A compound of ab ‘of, from, by’ + iungō ‘join, connect, attach’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó ‘off, away’
Proto-Italic *ap ‘from, off, away’
Latin ab ‘of, from, by’
Proto-Indo-European *yunégti ~ *yungénti
Proto-Italic *jungō ‘to yoke’
Latin iungō ‘join, connect, attach’
Every English word from Latin abiungō
Today it means
adj Exceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin abiungō / abjunctive