Etymograph

English

adunation

Adunation comes from Latin adūnātiō ‘union, uniting’, from ūnus ‘one’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos ‘one, single’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óynos‘one, single’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oinos‘one’reconstructed
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEoinos
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEūnus‘one’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadūnātiō‘union, uniting’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1678adunation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óynos‘one, single’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oinos‘one’reconstructed
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEoinos
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEūnus‘one’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadūnātiō‘union, uniting’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1678adunation

Earliest quotation: 1678, Jeremy Taylor, The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […]. Th: “[W]e are taught, that all the body of holy…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos ‘one, single’

an, no, one, any, only, none, 19 more

through Proto-Italic *oinos ‘one’

null, 17 more

through Old Latin oinos

universally, 13 more

through Latin ūnus ‘one’

unique, union, universal, unite, uno, triune, 14 more

Today it means

noun The act of uniting; union.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos / adunation

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