English
evanid
Evanid comes from Latin ēvānidus ‘vanishing, passing away, fleeting, evanescent’, from vānēscō ‘disappear’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- ‘empty, leave, abandon, give out’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁weh₂-‘empty, leave, abandon, give out’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wānosreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvānus‘empty’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvānēscō‘disappear’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvānēscōas ēvānēscere‘to vanish, disappear, pass away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvānidus‘vanishing, passing away, fleeting, evanescent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627evanid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁weh₂-‘empty, leave, abandon, give out’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wānosreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvānus‘empty’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvānēscō‘disappear’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvānēscōas ēvānēscere‘to vanish, disappear, pass away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvānidus‘vanishing, passing away, fleeting, evanescent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627evanid
Earliest quotation: 1627, IV. Century.: “where there is heat and strength enough in the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- ‘empty, leave, abandon, give out’
want, various, waste, variety, vacation, vast, vary, variable, void, vacant, evacuate, vacate, waning, wane, vacuous, varicella, 25 more
through Latin vānus ‘empty’
through Latin ēvānēscō ‘to vanish, disappear, pass away’
Today it means
adj Liable to vanish; faint; weak; evanescent.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- / evanid