English
exitious
Exitious comes from Latin exitiosus ‘destructive, pernicious, deadly’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexitiosus‘destructive, pernicious, deadly’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657exitious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexitiosus‘destructive, pernicious, deadly’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657exitious
Earliest quotation: 1657, Renodaeus tran. Richard Tomlinson: “Diſcorides ſaith that in Perſia they found this Tree…”
Every English word from Latin exitiosus
Today it means
adj Harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exitiosus / exitious