English
exoptation
Exoptation comes from Latin exoptatio.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexoptatio
- Englishearliest quotation 1626exoptation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexoptatio
- Englishearliest quotation 1626exoptation
Earliest quotation: 1626, Stephen Denison: “Come we now to the ſecond, namely the exoptation…”
Every English word from Latin exoptatio
Today it means
noun An earnest wishing or desire.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exoptatio / exoptation