English
argumentation
Argumentation comes from Latin argūmentor ‘to adduce arguments or proof of something,…’, and goes back to arguō ‘to clarify, to make plain’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEarguō‘to clarify, to make plain’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEargūmentum‘argument, evidence, proof’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEargūmentor‘to adduce arguments or proof of something, prove, reason’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEargūmentātiōnext step skipped: Anglo-Norman argumentacion
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500argumentacioun
- Englishearliest quotation 1989argumentation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEarguō‘to clarify, to make plain’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEargūmentum‘argument, evidence, proof’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEargūmentor‘to adduce arguments or proof of something, prove, reason’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEargūmentātiōnext step skipped: Anglo-Norman argumentacion
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500argumentacioun
- Englishearliest quotation 1989argumentation
Earliest quotation: 1989, Werner Winter, On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharia: “None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses…”.
Equivalent to argument + -ation
Latin arguō ‘to make clear, prove’
Latin argūmentum ‘argument, proof’
Old French arguement
Middle English argument
English argument
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- ‘white, shining’
through Latin arguō ‘to clarify, to make plain’
Today it means
noun Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin arguō / argumentation