English
extuberant
Extuberant comes from Latin extuberare.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextuberare
- Englishearliest quotation 1654extuberant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextuberare
- Englishearliest quotation 1654extuberant
Earliest quotation: 1654, Edmund Gayton: “her extuberant and reverst lips”.
Every English word from Latin extuberare
Today it means
adj swelling or sticking out; protuberant
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin extuberare / extuberant