Etymograph

English

extravenate

Extravenate comes from Latin vena ‘vein’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvena‘vein’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1650extravenate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvena‘vein’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1650extravenate

Earliest quotation: 1650, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds: “And finally, that having obtained this plenary satisfaction, of…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring, transport’

way, always, via, vehicle, reveal, wave, halfway, weigh, wagon, wee, vector, vogue, wedge, veil, headway, wag, wonky, eunuch, vex, wey, waw, wain, invective, velar, venal, 38 more

through Latin vena ‘vein’

vein, venous, vena, 2 more

Today it means

adj That has been let out of the veins.

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

Etymograph / Latin vena / extravenate

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