English
expiate
Expiate comes from Latin expiātus ‘expiated’, and goes back to expiō ‘atone for’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiō‘atone for’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiātus‘expiated’past participle of expiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1609expiate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiō‘atone for’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiātus‘expiated’past participle of expiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1609expiate
Earliest quotation: 1609, The Holie Bible, Doway: Laurence Kellam: “Neither let there be found in thee any that…”
A compound of ex ‘out of, from’ + ex- + expiō ‘to make amends or atonement for a crime or a…’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out of, from’
Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’
Proto-Italic *pīos ‘pious, devout’
Proto-Italic *pīāō ‘to expiate’
Latin piō ‘to appease, propitiate’
Latin expiō ‘to make amends or atonement for a crime or a criminal’
Every English word from Latin expiō
Today it means
verb To atone or make reparation for.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin expiō / expiate