English
exorbitate
Exorbitate comes from Latin exorbitatus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexorbitatus
- Englishearliest quotation 1692exorbitate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexorbitatus
- Englishearliest quotation 1692exorbitate
Earliest quotation: 1692, Richard Bentley, London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock]: “If the Planets had moved in those Lines above…”
Every English word from Latin exorbitatus
Today it means
verb To go off track or orbit; to deviate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exorbitatus / exorbitate