English
evagate
Evagate comes from Latin evagor ‘to wander off, out, forth’, and goes back to vagus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvagus‘wandering, roaming’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvagor‘wander’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEevagor‘to wander off, out, forth’
- Englishearliest quotation 1840evagate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvagus‘wandering, roaming’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvagor‘wander’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEevagor‘to wander off, out, forth’
- Englishearliest quotation 1840evagate
Earliest quotation: 1840, Colburn's Kalendar of Amusements in Town: “If, on the contrary, a placid and sleep-cemented satisfaction…”
Linked words
through Latin vagus ‘wandering, roaming’
through Latin vagor ‘wander’
Today it means
verb To wander.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vagus / evagate