Etymograph

English

edible

Edible comes from Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō ‘eat’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁ed-‘to eat’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁édti‘to eat’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*edō‘to eat’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEedō‘eat’
  5. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEedibilis
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1957edible

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁ed-‘to eat’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁édti‘to eat’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*edō‘to eat’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEedō‘eat’
  5. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEedibilis
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1957edible

Earliest quotation: 1957, Jane Van Zandt Brower, Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butter: “However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- ‘to eat’

eating, anna, ana, fret, anodyne, esca, 20 more

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti ‘to eat’

eat, et, ent, etch, phage, 11 more

through Latin edō ‘eat’

obesity, 10 more

Today it means

adj Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- / edible

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