English
exorbitation
Exorbitation comes from Latin exorbitō ‘to go off the track, deviate’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- ‘to change allegiance, status, ownership’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃erbʰ-‘to change allegiance, status, ownership’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEorbita‘track’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexorbitō‘to go off the track, deviate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexorbitatio
- Englishearliest quotation 1635exorbitation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃erbʰ-‘to change allegiance, status, ownership’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEorbita‘track’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexorbitō‘to go off the track, deviate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexorbitatio
- Englishearliest quotation 1635exorbitation
Earliest quotation: 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Seraphim: “Nothing they are ſaue a meere perturbation / Of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- ‘to change allegiance, status, ownership’
robot, bot, orphan, orb, orbital, erf, 13 more
through Latin orbita ‘track’
Today it means
noun The act of leaving the usual path or course; deviation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- / exorbitation