English
adherency
Adherency comes from Latin adhaerēns ‘cleaving or sticking to’, and goes back to haereō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhaereō‘to stick, stick fast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadhaereō‘to cleave or stick to’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadhaerēns‘cleaving or sticking to’
- Medieval Latinmodernadhaerentia
- Englishearliest quotation 1665adherency
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhaereō‘to stick, stick fast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadhaereō‘to cleave or stick to’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadhaerēns‘cleaving or sticking to’
- Medieval Latinmodernadhaerentia
- Englishearliest quotation 1665adherency
Earliest quotation: 1665, Richard Allestree, Sermon XI. Christ-Church in Oxford […]: “’twere happier if we would so far confute the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰays- ‘to adhere, to stick, to be fixed’
through Latin haereō ‘to stick, stick fast’
hesitate, hesitation, hesitant, cohesion, coherent, coherence, hesitancy, coherency, 23 more
through Latin adhaereō ‘to cleave or stick to’
Today it means
noun The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin haereō / adherency