Etymograph

English

exception

Exception comes from Middle English exception, from Anglo-Norman excepcioun, from Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptiō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexceptiō
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400excepcion
  3. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400excepcioun
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500exception
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2012same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexceptiō
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400excepcion
  3. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400excepcioun
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500exception
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2012same form

Earliest quotation: 2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: “The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished…”

Formed from except + -ion

Latin capiō ‘to take’

Latin excipiō ‘to take out, except’

Latin exceptus ‘taken out’

Middle French excepter

English except

Every English word from Latin exceptiō

Today it means

noun The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin exceptiō / exception

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