English
expatiate
Expatiate comes from Latin expatior, from spatior ‘walk about’, and ultimately from spatium ‘space, distance’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatium‘space, distance’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatiō‘wander, roam’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatior‘walk about’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpatior
- Englishearliest quotation 1713expatiate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatium‘space, distance’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatiō‘wander, roam’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEspatior‘walk about’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpatior
- Englishearliest quotation 1713expatiate
Earliest quotation: 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest. […]: “[L]ooks on heav'n with more than mortal eyes, /…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- ‘to prosper, succeed’
speed, spare, desperate, despair, prosper, desperation, esperanza, desperado, esperance, 3 more
through Latin spatium ‘space, distance’
Today it means
verb To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin spatium / expatiate