English
acclive
Acclive comes from Latin acclīvis ‘sloping (upward), uphill’, and goes back to clīvus ‘slope, hill, rise’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEclīvus‘slope, hill, rise’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEacclīvis‘sloping (upward), uphill’
- Englishtodayacclive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEclīvus‘slope, hill, rise’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEacclīvis‘sloping (upward), uphill’
- Englishtodayacclive
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- ‘to lean’
law, low, climate, lean, ladder, decline, lid, climax, inclination, eyelid, incline, clinician, cline, declension, declination, proclivity, 25 more
Today it means
adj Synonym of acclivous (“sloping upwards”).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin clīvus / acclive