Etymograph

English

exprobration

Exprobration comes from Latin exprōbrātiō ‘reproach’, from probrum ‘disgrace, shame’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰr-o- ‘what is brought up against someone as a reproach’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pro-bʰr-o-‘what is brought up against someone as a reproach’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprobrum‘disgrace, shame’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexprōbrō‘to reproach, upbraid or reprove’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexprōbrātiō‘reproach’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1653exprobration

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pro-bʰr-o-‘what is brought up against someone as a reproach’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprobrum‘disgrace, shame’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexprōbrō‘to reproach, upbraid or reprove’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexprōbrātiō‘reproach’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1653exprobration

Earliest quotation: 1653, Christ’s Advent to Judgment.] Part II.”: “For it will, it must needs be a fearful…”

Formed from -ion

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰr-o-

Today it means

noun Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰr-o- / exprobration

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