English
exarate
Exarate comes from Latin exaratus ‘dug up, dug out’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexaratus‘dug up, dug out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657exarate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexaratus‘dug up, dug out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657exarate
Earliest quotation: 1657, Thomas Reeve: “God hath an observing eye over a Penitent, and…”
A compound of exarare ‘to plough up, to write’ + arare ‘to plough’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- ‘to plough’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti ‘to be ploughing’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃yeti
Proto-Italic *araō ‘to plough’
Latin arō ‘plough’
Latin exarō ‘to plough up, to write’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- ‘to plough’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti ‘to be ploughing’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃yeti
Proto-Italic *araō ‘to plough’
Latin arō ‘to plough’
Every English word from Latin exaratus
Today it means
verb To plough up.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exaratus / exarate