English
compaction
Compaction comes from Latin compingere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompingere
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompactionem
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400compaction
- Englishearliest quotation 2009compaction
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompingere
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompactionem
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400compaction
- Englishearliest quotation 2009compaction
Earliest quotation: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall: “At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth,…”
Every English word from Latin compingere
Today it means
noun The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin compingere / compaction