English
execrate
Execrate comes from Latin exsecrārī.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsecrārī
- Englishearliest quotation 1816execrate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsecrārī
- Englishearliest quotation 1816execrate
Earliest quotation: 1816, – 1817 April/May, The Modern Prometheus. […]: “Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + sacrāre ‘to consecrate, declare accursed’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- ‘to make a pact, treaty’
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós
Proto-Italic *sakros ‘sacred’
Proto-Italic *sakrāō ‘to sanctify’
Latin sacrō ‘to consecrate, declare accursed’
Every English word from Latin exsecrārī
Today it means
verb To feel loathing for; to abhor.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exsecrārī / execrate