English
agglutinate
Agglutinate comes from Latin agglūtinātus ‘glued, pasted, fastened’, and goes back to adglūtināre ‘to glue or cement to a thing’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadglūtināre‘to glue or cement to a thing’next step skipped: Latin agglūtinō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagglūtinātus‘glued, pasted, fastened’
- Englishearliest quotation 1614agglutinate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadglūtināre‘to glue or cement to a thing’next step skipped: Latin agglūtinō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagglūtinātus‘glued, pasted, fastened’
- Englishearliest quotation 1614agglutinate
Earliest quotation: 1614, Seneca the Younger, Of Natvrall Qvestions: “This is a medicine, and hath a mud of…”
A compound of glūten ‘glue’ + glūtinō ‘to glue (together)’ + agglūtinō ‘to glue, paste, solder or cement to something’
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- ‘to smear, putty’
Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
Proto-Italic *gloiten
Latin glūten ‘glue’
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- ‘to smear, putty’
Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
Proto-Italic *gloiten
Latin glūten ‘glue’
Latin glūtinō ‘to glue (together)’
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- ‘to smear, putty’
Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
Proto-Italic *gloiten
Latin glūten ‘glue’
Latin glūtinō ‘to glue (together)’
Latin agglūtinō ‘to glue, paste, solder or cement to something’
Every English word from Latin adglūtināre
Today it means
adj United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin adglūtināre / agglutinate