Etymograph

English

gloriation

Gloriation comes from Latin gloriatio ‘glorying, boasting, vaunting, exulting’, and goes back to gloria.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgloria‘glory’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgloriari‘to glory, boast’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgloriatio‘glorying, boasting, vaunting, exulting’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1651gloriation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgloria‘glory’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgloriari‘to glory, boast’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgloriatio‘glorying, boasting, vaunting, exulting’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1651gloriation

Earliest quotation: 1651, Thomas Hobbes: “Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind,…”

Linked words

through Latin gloria ‘glory’

glory, gloriously, glorification, 6 more

Today it means

noun A boast; a triumphing.

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

Etymograph / Latin gloria / gloriation

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