Etymograph

English

expostulation

Expostulation comes from Latin expostulātiō ‘complaint, expostulation’, and goes back to expostulō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpostulō‘demand, expostulate’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpostulātiō‘complaint, expostulation’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpostulātiōnemaccusative singular of expostulātiō
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1847expostulation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpostulō‘demand, expostulate’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpostulātiō‘complaint, expostulation’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpostulātiōnemaccusative singular of expostulātiō
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1847expostulation

Earliest quotation: 1847, Ellis Bell pseudonym; Emily Brontë, London: Thomas Cautley Newby: “[H]eedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and…”

A compound of ex ‘out of, from’ + postulō ‘demand or claim’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex ‘out of, from’

Every English word from Latin expostulō

Today it means

noun The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.

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Etymograph / Latin expostulō / expostulation

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