English
illaqueation
Illaqueation comes from Latin illaqueō ‘to ensnare’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEillaqueōas illaqueare‘to ensnare’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646illaqueation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEillaqueōas illaqueare‘to ensnare’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646illaqueation
Earliest quotation: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “And even that the Hebrews used this present way…”
Formed from -ation
Every English word from Latin illaqueō
Today it means
noun Trapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin illaqueō / illaqueation