English
ferrumination
Ferrumination comes from Latin ferruminatio.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferruminatio
- Englishearliest quotation 1817ferrumination
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferruminatio
- Englishearliest quotation 1817ferrumination
Earliest quotation: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Rest Fenner: “Now look out in the Gradus for Purus, and…”
The story
Latin ferruminatio: compare French ferrumination.
Every English word from Latin ferruminatio
Today it means
noun The soldering or uniting of metals.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ferruminatio / ferrumination