English
adhesion
Adhesion comes from French adhésion ‘adhesion, adherence’, from Latin adhaereō ‘to cleave or stick to’, and ultimately from 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 CEadhaesiōnem
- Frenchc. 1600–presentadhésion‘adhesion, adherence’
- Englishearliest quotation 1666adhesion
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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 CEadhaesiōnem
- Frenchc. 1600–presentadhésion‘adhesion, adherence’
- Englishearliest quotation 1666adhesion
Earliest quotation: 1666, Edward Waterhous[e]: “[N]o waver in Judgment, have I, though Gods mercy,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰays- ‘to adhere, to stick, to be fixed’
through Latin haereō ‘to stick, stick fast’
coherent, hesitate, coherence, hesitant, adherence, hesitation, cohesion, adherent, coherency, hesitancy, 22 more
through Latin adhaereō ‘to cleave or stick to’
Today it means
noun The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin haereō / adhesion