English
disjunct
Disjunct comes from Latin iunctus ‘joined’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiunctusas junctus‘joined’
- Englishearliest quotation 1966disjunct
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiunctusas junctus‘joined’
- Englishearliest quotation 1966disjunct
Earliest quotation: 1966, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, New York: “[…] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series…”
Linked words
through Latin iunctus ‘joined’
Today it means
adj Separate; discontinuous; not connected.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin iunctus / disjunct