English
imminution
Imminution comes from Latin imminutio ‘lessening, weakening, impairing, injuring’, and goes back to imminuere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimminuere‘to lessen’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimminutio‘lessening, weakening, impairing, injuring’
- Englishearliest quotation 1647imminution
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimminuere‘to lessen’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimminutio‘lessening, weakening, impairing, injuring’
- Englishearliest quotation 1647imminution
Earliest quotation: 1647, Henry More, Cambridge: “No ſhade of change, no imminution, / No nor…”
Every English word from Latin imminuere
Today it means
noun reduction; lessening; decrease.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin imminuere / imminution