English
genuflection
Genuflection comes from Latin genuflexio.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgenuflexio
- Englishearliest quotation 1820genuflection
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgenuflexio
- Englishearliest quotation 1820genuflection
Earliest quotation: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or: “Those impious Pigs, Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared…”
Every English word from Latin genuflexio
Today it means
noun The act of genuflecting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin genuflexio / genuflection