Etymograph

English

empanoply

Empanoply comes from Ancient Greek πᾰνοπλῐ́ᾱ ‘suit of armour’, and goes back to πάνοπλος.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπάνοπλος‘in full armour’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπᾰνοπλῐ́ᾱpănoplĭ́ā‘suit of armour’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1784empanoply

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπάνοπλος‘in full armour’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπᾰνοπλῐ́ᾱpănoplĭ́ā‘suit of armour’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1784empanoply

Earliest quotation: 1784, William Robert Spencer, London: James Cochrane and Co.: “I see, I see, empanoply'd in arms, / (Rapt…”

Formed from em- + panoply ‘complete set of armour’

Ancient Greek πάνοπλος ‘in full armour’

Ancient Greek πανοπλία ‘suit of armour’

English panoply

The story

From em- (prefix meaning ‘on, onto; covered’) + panoply (‘complete set of armour’); panoply is derived from Ancient Greek πᾰνοπλῐ́ᾱ (pănoplĭ́ā, “suit of armour”), from πάνοπλος (pánoplos, “in full armour”) (from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) + ὅπλον (hóplon, “armour; arms, weapons”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Every English word from Ancient Greek πάνοπλος

Today it means

verb To dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply.

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

Etymograph / Ancient Greek πάνοπλος / empanoply

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