Etymograph

English

emication

Emication comes from Latin emicare ‘to spring out or forth’, from micō ‘to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyk- ‘to shimmer’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meyk-‘to shimmer’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmicōas micare‘to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEemicare‘to spring out or forth’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEemicatio
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1646emication

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meyk-‘to shimmer’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmicōas micare‘to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEemicare‘to spring out or forth’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEemicatio
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1646emication

Earliest quotation: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “Thus Iron in Aqua fortis will fall into ebullition,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *meyk- ‘to shimmer’

mica, 2 more

Today it means

noun A spark, flickering or scintillation.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meyk- / emication

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