English
fescennine
Fescennine comes from Latin Fescennia.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEFescennia
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEFescennīnus
- Englishearliest quotation 1815fescennine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEFescennia
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEFescennīnus
- Englishearliest quotation 1815fescennine
Earliest quotation: 1815, Walter Scott, The Astrologer. […]: “[T]he frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient…”
Every English word from Latin Fescennia
Today it means
adj Obscene or scurrilous.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Fescennia / fescennine