Etymograph

English

exuvium

Exuvium may come from Latin exuvium.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexuviumuncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1860same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexuviumuncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1860same form

Earliest quotation: 1860, John Harper "Glimpses of Ocean Life: “This gentleman, we learn, kept a crayfish alive in…”

The story

Perhaps from Latin exuvium, or perhaps an independent back-formation from exuvia, under the impression that exuvia is the plural of a Latin second-declension neuter noun exuvium, whereas exuvia is in reality the regularised first-declension singular of Latin exuviae.

Every English word from Latin exuvium

Today it means

noun Synonym of exuviae.

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