English
exsiccant
Exsiccant comes from Latin exsiccans ‘drying up’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsiccans‘drying up’
- Englishearliest quotation 1894exsiccant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsiccans‘drying up’
- Englishearliest quotation 1894exsiccant
Earliest quotation: 1894, Arthur Albert Stevens: “Dried alum is used solely as an exsiccant and…”
Every English word from Latin exsiccans
Today it means
adj Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exsiccans / exsiccant