Etymograph

English

adust

Adust comes from Latin adustus ‘burnt, scorched’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadustus‘burnt, scorched’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600aduste
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1638adust

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadustus‘burnt, scorched’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600aduste
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1638adust

Earliest quotation: 1638, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, Of the Matter of Melancholy: “From melancholy aduſt ariſes one kind [of humour]; from…”

Every English word from Latin adustus

Today it means

adj Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).

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