English
enode
Enode comes from Latin enodare, from nodare ‘to fill with knots’, and ultimately from nodus ‘a knot’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnodus‘a knot’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnodare‘to fill with knots’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEenodare
- Englishearliest quotation 1684enode
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnodus‘a knot’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnodare‘to fill with knots’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEenodare
- Englishearliest quotation 1684enode
Earliest quotation: 1684, Samuel Willard: “Riddles which require great study to enode them.”
Linked words
through Latin nodus ‘a knot’
Today it means
verb To clear of knots; to make clear.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin nodus / enode