Etymograph

English

exemplum

Exemplum comes from Latin exemplum ‘torture, exemplary penalty, chastisement’, and goes back to eximō ‘to take out, take away’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeximō‘to take out, take away’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexemplum‘torture, exemplary penalty, chastisement’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1971same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeximō‘to take out, take away’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexemplum‘torture, exemplary penalty, chastisement’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1971same form

Earliest quotation: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: “In the Middle Ages preachers had enlivened their sermons…”

Linked words

through Latin exemplum ‘torture, exemplary penalty, chastisement’

example, sample, 4 more

Today it means

noun An example.

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

Etymograph / Latin eximō / exemplum

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