English
el
El comes from Latin el ‘the name of the letter L’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEel‘the name of the letter L’
- Old Englishc. 450–1150el
- Englishearliest quotation 1773el
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEel‘the name of the letter L’
- Old Englishc. 450–1150el
- Englishearliest quotation 1773el
Earliest quotation: 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal E: “The word length, which contains only four sounds l…”
Every English word from Latin el
Another origin of el
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂el-‘to grow, nourish’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*olnos‘that’reconstructed
- Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEolle
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEille‘that one’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentel‘he, him, masculine personal third person subject and disjunctive pronoun’
- Englishtodayel
Today it means
noun The name of the Latin script letter L/l.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin el / el