English
crude
Crude comes from Latin crūdus ‘unprepared, raw, uncooked’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krewh₂-‘bloody or raw flesh, raw meat’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrūdus‘unprepared, raw, uncooked’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500crude‘unprocessed, uncooked, unworked’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1503–1512same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krewh₂-‘bloody or raw flesh, raw meat’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrūdus‘unprepared, raw, uncooked’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500crude‘unprocessed, uncooked, unworked’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1503–1512same form
Earliest quotation: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood: “Her mete was very crude, She had not wel…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- ‘bloody or raw flesh, raw meat’
Today it means
adj In a natural, untreated state.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- / crude