Etymograph

English

gibbose

Gibbose comes from Latin gibbosus ‘humped, humpbacked’, from gibbus ‘hunch, hump’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *gīfri-.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gīfri-‘hump’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgibber‘hump, hunch’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgibbus‘hunch, hump’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgibbosus‘humped, humpbacked’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1752gibbose

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gīfri-‘hump’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgibber‘hump, hunch’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgibbus‘hunch, hump’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgibbosus‘humped, humpbacked’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1752gibbose

Earliest quotation: 1752, John Hill: “Of those which are of a more globose figure…”

Every English word from Proto-Italic *gīfri-

Today it means

adj humped; protuberant; having one or more large elevations

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *gīfri- / gibbose

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