English
contuse
Contuse comes from Latin contundere ‘pound or beat small’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(s)tunédti ‘to be pushing, hitting’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)tunédti‘to be pushing, hitting’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tundō‘to beat, strike’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtundōas tundere‘beat, thump’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcontundere‘pound or beat small’
- Englishearliest quotation 1869contuse
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)tunédti‘to be pushing, hitting’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tundō‘to beat, strike’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtundōas tundere‘beat, thump’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcontundere‘pound or beat small’
- Englishearliest quotation 1869contuse
Earliest quotation: 1869, St Louis Medical Society, The Medical Archives: “How many uteruses, vaginas and perineums, suppose you, would…”
Linked words
through Latin tundō ‘beat, thump’
Today it means
verb To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)tunédti / contuse