English
illapse
Illapse comes from Latin illapsus ‘a falling, gliding, or flowing in’, from illābor ‘to fall, to slide’, and ultimately from lābor.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElābor‘slide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEillābor‘to fall, to slide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEillapsus‘a falling, gliding, or flowing in’
- Englishearliest quotation 1677illapse
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElābor‘slide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEillābor‘to fall, to slide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEillapsus‘a falling, gliding, or flowing in’
- Englishearliest quotation 1677illapse
Earliest quotation: 1677, Matthew Hale, London: Printed by William Godbid: “The illapſe of some pre-existent or animating formative Principle,…”
Linked words
through Latin lābor ‘slide’
labour, laboratory, collaboration, elaborate, lava, collapse, laborious, relapse, labile, elapse, 8 more
Today it means
noun A gliding in; an immission or entrance of one thing into another.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lābor / illapse