English
deleble
Deleble comes from Latin dēlēbilis ‘destructible, destroyable’, and goes back to dēleō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēleō‘to destroy, terminate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēlēbilis‘destructible, destroyable’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1662deleble
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēleō‘to destroy, terminate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēlēbilis‘destructible, destroyable’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1662deleble
Earliest quotation: a. 1662, Thomas Fuller, Cumberland: “For pens, ſo uſefull for Scholars to note the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- ‘to smear’
through Latin dēleō ‘to destroy, terminate’
through Latin dēlēbilis ‘destructible, destroyable’
Today it means
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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin dēleō / deleble