Etymograph

English

excitate

Excitate comes from Latin excitatus ‘roused, awoken, summoned, having been…’, from Proto-Italic *kieō ‘to stir’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂- ‘to move’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*keyh₂-‘to move’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kieō‘to stir’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcieō‘to call, summon’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcieō‘to call out, arouse, excite’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcitō‘rouse, awaken’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcitatus‘roused, awoken, summoned, having been summoned, excited, having been excited’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1609excitate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*keyh₂-‘to move’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kieō‘to stir’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcieō‘to call, summon’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcieō‘to call out, arouse, excite’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcitō‘rouse, awaken’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcitatus‘roused, awoken, summoned, having been summoned, excited, having been excited’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1609excitate

Earliest quotation: 1609, Francis Bacon: “the Earth being excitated to wrath”.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂- ‘to move’

kinetic, kinase, cytokine, cine, kinematics, kine, 10 more

through Proto-Italic *kieō ‘to stir’

recitation, 4 more

through Latin cieō ‘to call, summon’

citation, recite, incite, resuscitate, recitative, 5 more

Today it means

verb To excite.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂- / excitate

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