Etymograph

English

edificate

Edificate comes from Latin aedifico ‘to build, erect, establish’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- ‘to ignite’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eydʰ-‘to ignite’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éydʰ-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*aiðesreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaedisas aedēs‘building’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaedifico‘to build, erect, establish’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1899edificate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eydʰ-‘to ignite’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éydʰ-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*aiðesreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaedisas aedēs‘building’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaedifico‘to build, erect, establish’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1899edificate

Earliest quotation: 1899, William Makepeace Thackeray: “Vides my Fili, what a little nous Suffices to…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- ‘to ignite’

ethanol, ether, estuary, atrium, 20 more

Today it means

verb to build

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- / edificate

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