English
grandevity
Grandevity comes from Latin grandaevitas.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrandaevitas
- Englishearliest quotation 1620grandevity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrandaevitas
- Englishearliest quotation 1620grandevity
Earliest quotation: 1620, Francis Bacon: “the grandevity of the world”.
A compound of grandaevus ‘great’ + aevus ‘age’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- ‘long time, lifetime’
Proto-Italic *aiwom ‘period, age’
Latin aevum ‘age’
Every English word from Latin grandaevitas
Today it means
noun Great age; long life, longevity.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin grandaevitas / grandevity