Etymograph

English

adipose

Adipose comes from New Latin adipōsus ‘fatty, adipose’, and goes back to Latin adeps ‘fat, lard’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadeps‘fat, lard’
  2. New Latinc. 1500–1900adipōsus‘fatty, adipose’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2003adipose

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadeps‘fat, lard’
  2. New Latinc. 1500–1900adipōsus‘fatty, adipose’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2003adipose

Earliest quotation: 2003, Dr. Andrew Packard: “They will attack the problem specifically at key sites…”

Equivalent to adip- + -ose

The story

By surface analysis, adip- + -ose; Latin adeps (‘fat, lard’) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d.

Every English word from Latin adeps

Today it means

adj Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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