English
flaccid
Flaccid comes from Latin flaccid(us).
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflaccid(us)
- Englishearliest quotation 1817flaccid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflaccid(us)
- Englishearliest quotation 1817flaccid
Earliest quotation: 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam. […]: “The combatants with rage most horrible Strove, and their…”
A compound of flaccus ‘flabby, flaccid, hanging down’ + flacceō ‘to be flabby or flaccid’
Latin flaccus ‘flabby, flaccid, hanging down’
Latin flacceō ‘to be flabby or flaccid’
Every English word from Latin flaccid(us)
Today it means
adj Flabby; lacking firmness or muscle tone.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flaccid(us) / flaccid