English
distortion
Distortion comes from Latin distortus ‘distorted’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdistortus‘distorted’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdistortio
- Englishearliest quotation 1978distortion
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdistortus‘distorted’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdistortio
- Englishearliest quotation 1978distortion
Earliest quotation: 1978, 1976, Leszek Kołakowski: “It was not until much later, in Stalin's time,…”
Every English word from Latin distortus
Today it means
noun An act of distorting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin distortus / distortion