Etymograph

English

allatrate

Allatrate comes from Latin allātrō ‘to bark at’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *leh₂-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leh₂-‘to bark, howl’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lātromreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElātrō‘bark’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEallātrō‘to bark at’
  5. Englishtodayallatrate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leh₂-‘to bark, howl’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lātromreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElātrō‘bark’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEallātrō‘to bark at’
  5. Englishtodayallatrate

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- ‘to bark, howl’

loom, lament, lull, lethargic, latent, lethe, loll, laika, alastor, 15 more

through Latin lātrō ‘bark’

larceny, 9 more

Today it means

verb To bark.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- / allatrate