Etymograph

English

extimulate

Extimulate comes from Latin extimulatus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextimulatus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1650extimulate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextimulatus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1650extimulate

Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “Opium itſelf is conceived to extimulate unto venery, and…”

Today it means

verb To stimulate.

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

Etymograph / Latin extimulatus / extimulate