English
exilition
Exilition comes from Latin exilīo ‘leap up, bound’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexilīo‘leap up, bound’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646exilition
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexilīo‘leap up, bound’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646exilition
Earliest quotation: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “From Salt-petre proceedeth the force and the report; for…”
Formed from -ion
Every English word from Latin exilīo
Today it means
noun The act of suddenly jumping up or out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exilīo / exilition