English
excruciable
Excruciable comes from Latin excruciabilis ‘deserving of torture’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcruciabilis‘deserving of torture’
- Englishearliest quotation 1872excruciable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcruciabilis‘deserving of torture’
- Englishearliest quotation 1872excruciable
Earliest quotation: 1872, Amos Stevens Billingsley, From the Flag to the Cross: Or: “With the same heroic devotion with which they went…”
Every English word from Latin excruciabilis
Today it means
adj Liable to torment.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin excruciabilis / excruciable