English
exility
Exility comes from Latin exilis ‘small, thin, narrow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexilis‘small, thin, narrow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexilitatem
- Englishearliest quotation 1658exility
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexilis‘small, thin, narrow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexilitatem
- Englishearliest quotation 1658exility
Earliest quotation: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial: “But from the exility of bones, thinnesse of skulls,…”
Every English word from Latin exilis
Today it means
noun Thinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exilis / exility