English
excite
Excite comes from Latin excitō ‘to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up,…’, and goes back to excieō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcieō‘to call out, arouse, excite’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcitō‘to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate’frequentative of excieō
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400exciter
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500exciten
- Englishearliest quotation 1840excite
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcieō‘to call out, arouse, excite’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcitō‘to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate’frequentative of excieō
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400exciter
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500exciten
- Englishearliest quotation 1840excite
Earliest quotation: 1840, Randolph Roscoe: “[S]he assured them […] that they had better follow…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + cieō ‘to call, summon’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂- ‘to move’
Proto-Italic *kieō ‘to stir’
Latin cieō ‘to call, summon’
Every English word from Latin excieō
Today it means
verb To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin excieō / excite