English
cerebation
Cerebation may come from Latin cerebrum ‘a brain’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcerebrum‘a brain’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1875cerebation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcerebrum‘a brain’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1875cerebation
Earliest quotation: 1875, Edward Heneage Dering, Sherborne; or: “What he said, when he did speak, (whether accidentally,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-
horn, hart, cheer, grail, migraine, corny, crater, cornea, cairn, cornet, carotid, cranium, procrastinate, keratin, rother, 53 more
through Latin cerebrum ‘a brain’
Today it means
noun The act of using the mind; thought.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cerebrum / cerebation