Etymograph

English

exhume

Exhume comes from Medieval Latin exhumō, from Latin humō ‘to bury’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *homos.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*homosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhumus‘soil’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhumō‘to bury’
  4. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500exhumō
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1936exhume

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*homosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhumus‘soil’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhumō‘to bury’
  4. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500exhumō
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1936exhume

Earliest quotation: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art: “Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to…”

Linked words

through Latin humus ‘soil’

humble, humiliation, humility, humiliate, humus, 2 more

Today it means

verb To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *homos / exhume

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