English
epilate
Epilate comes from Latin pilus ‘hair’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpilus‘hair’
- Englishearliest quotation 1927epilate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpilus‘hair’
- Englishearliest quotation 1927epilate
Earliest quotation: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: “Cæsar was proud of his physical beauty, and, like…”
Linked words
through Latin pilleus ‘felt cap’
through Latin pilus ‘hair’
Today it means
verb To remove hair from the skin in such a way that removes or destroys the root, especially by plucking it out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pilus / epilate