English
enucleation
Enucleation comes from Latin ēnucleātus ‘having had the stone, core etc. removed’, from nucleus ‘kernel’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *knuks ‘nut’.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*knuks‘nut’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnux‘nut’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnucleus‘kernel’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēnucleō‘to remove the kernel, stone, etc. from’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēnucleātus‘having had the stone, core etc. removed’perfect passive participle of ēnucleō
- Englishearliest quotation 1957enucleation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*knuks‘nut’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnux‘nut’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnucleus‘kernel’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēnucleō‘to remove the kernel, stone, etc. from’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēnucleātus‘having had the stone, core etc. removed’perfect passive participle of ēnucleō
- Englishearliest quotation 1957enucleation
Earliest quotation: 1957, Gerald Frank Else, Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument: “Perhaps this enucleation of Aristotle's theory is enough, without…”
Formed from enucleate + -ion
Proto-Italic *knuks ‘nut’
Latin nux ‘nut’
Latin nucleus ‘kernel’
Latin ēnucleō ‘to remove the kernel from’
Latin ēnucleātus ‘having had the stone, core etc. removed’
English enucleate
Linked words
through Latin nux ‘nut’
through Latin nucleus ‘kernel’
Today it means
noun The surgical removal of an intact organ, especially of the eye and of cysts and tumors.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *knuks / enucleation