English
elixate
Elixate comes from Latin ēlixāre ‘to seethe’, and goes back to ēlixus ‘thoroughly boiled’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēlixus‘thoroughly boiled’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēlixāre‘to seethe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēlixātuspast participle of ēlixāre
- Englishearliest quotation 1657elixate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēlixus‘thoroughly boiled’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēlixāre‘to seethe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēlixātuspast participle of ēlixāre
- Englishearliest quotation 1657elixate
Earliest quotation: 1657, Jean de Renou: “Polypody must be contunded and elixated; whereunto , when…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- ‘moist, to wet’
Today it means
verb To boil; to seethe.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ēlixus / elixate