English
abnegator
Abnegator comes from Late Latin abnegator ‘a denier’, from Latin abnegō ‘refuse, deny, decline’, and ultimately from negō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnegō‘deny’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabnegō‘refuse, deny, decline’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEabnegatus‘refused, denied, declined, having been refused’
- Late Latin, derivedc. 200–600 CEabnegator‘a denier’
- Englishearliest quotation 1605same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnegō‘deny’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEabnegō‘refuse, deny, decline’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEabnegatus‘refused, denied, declined, having been refused’
- Late Latin, derivedc. 200–600 CEabnegator‘a denier’
- Englishearliest quotation 1605same form
Earliest quotation: 1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion: “On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *né ‘not’
no, na, ne, necessity, 13 more
through Latin nec ‘nor’
through Latin negō ‘deny’
Today it means
noun One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin negō / abnegator