English
desinent
Desinent comes from Latin desinens ‘desisting’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdesinens‘desisting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1605desinent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdesinens‘desisting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1605desinent
Earliest quotation: 1605, Ben Jonson: “In front of this sea were placed six tritons,…”
A compound of desitum ‘to leave off, cease’ + sinere ‘to let, allow’
Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- ‘to build, cultivate’
Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti
Proto-Italic *sinō ‘to put in place’
Latin sinō ‘to let, allow’
Every English word from Latin desinens
Today it means
adj Ending; forming an end; lowermost.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin desinens / desinent