English
extravert
Extravert comes from Latin extrāvertō, from vertō ‘to turn’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō‘to turn’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrāvertō
- Englishearliest quotation 1669extravert
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō‘to turn’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrāvertō
- Englishearliest quotation 1669extravert
Earliest quotation: 1669, William Simpson, Hydrologia Chymica: “It is not the moist air that extraverts any…”
Equivalent to extra- + -vert
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter ‘being on the outside’
Latin extrā ‘outside, except, beyond’
English extra-
The story
Popularized in psychology by translations of German works by Carl Jung.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, worth, weird, ridiculous, universe, ridicule, derision, wurst, deride, invert, derisive, 57 more
through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’
adverse, diversion, inverse, inversion, perverse, aversion, transverse, perversion, averse, reversion, 39 more
through Latin vertō ‘to turn’
university, version, conversation, divorce, diversity, versus, diverse, verse, vertical, advertisement, versatile, convertible, vortex, adversity, diversification, advert, divert, revert, pervert, vertigo, vertex, subvert, vertebrate, verso, introvert, vertebra, evert, perversity, vertiginous, 48 more
Today it means
noun —
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wert- / extravert