English
exsuction
Exsuction comes from Latin ex(s)ugō ‘to suck out’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEex(s)ugō‘to suck out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1659exsuction
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEex(s)ugō‘to suck out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1659exsuction
Earliest quotation: 1659, Robert Boyle, [Experiment 26]: “VVe thought it not amiſs to try if a…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + sugō ‘to suck’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *sewg-
Proto-Indo-European *séwgeti
Proto-Italic *sougō
Latin sugō ‘to suck’
Every English word from Latin ex(s)ugō
Today it means
noun The act of sucking out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ex(s)ugō / exsuction