English
hortation
Hortation comes from Latin hortatio ‘encouragement, exhortation’, and goes back to horior ‘to urge’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhorioras hori‘to urge’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhortari‘to incite, exhort’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhortatio‘encouragement, exhortation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1885hortation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhorioras hori‘to urge’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhortari‘to incite, exhort’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhortatio‘encouragement, exhortation’
- Englishearliest quotation 1885hortation
Earliest quotation: 1885, Philip Schaff et al: “And since, by the will of God, now is…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- ‘to yearn for’
grand, grill, greedy, grit, charismatic, growl, grime, yearn, grout, yar, grisly, ochre, grist, chromatic, grimace, exhort, 16 more
Today it means
noun The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin horior / hortation