English
abligate
Abligate comes from Latin ligātus ‘connected, tied, bound, having been connected’, and goes back to ligō ‘to tie’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEligōas ligāre, perfect passive participle‘to tie’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEligātus‘connected, tied, bound, having been connected’
- Englishearliest quotation 1936abligate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEligōas ligāre, perfect passive participle‘to tie’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEligātus‘connected, tied, bound, having been connected’
- Englishearliest quotation 1936abligate
Earliest quotation: 1936, C. A. Herrick, Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella: “In order to simulate small intestinal conditions in the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- ‘to bind’
through Latin ligō ‘to tie’
league, religious, religion, ally, alloy, liaison, liable, lien, ligament, ligand, religiosity, liaise, ligature, legato, ligation, obligate, 13 more
Today it means
verb To tie up, especially a body part.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ligō / abligate