English
expiscate
Expiscate comes from Latin expiscatus ‘having found out’, and goes back to expiscari.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiscari‘to fish out’next step skipped: Latin expiscor
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiscatus‘having found out’past participle of expiscari
- Englishearliest quotation 1860expiscate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiscari‘to fish out’next step skipped: Latin expiscor
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpiscatus‘having found out’past participle of expiscari
- Englishearliest quotation 1860expiscate
Earliest quotation: 1860, John Pringle Nichol: “Mathematics may be separated into two divisions, one of…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + piscari ‘to fish’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Every English word from Latin expiscari
Today it means
verb To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin expiscari / expiscate