English
fucate
Fucate comes from Latin fūcātus ‘coloured’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfūcātus‘coloured’
- Englishearliest quotation 1624fucate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfūcātus‘coloured’
- Englishearliest quotation 1624fucate
Earliest quotation: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as…”
Every English word from Latin fūcātus
Today it means
adj Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fūcātus / fucate