English
immunize
Immunize comes from French immuniser ‘to immunize/immunise’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentimmuniser‘to immunize/immunise’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992immunize
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentimmuniser‘to immunize/immunise’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992immunize
Earliest quotation: 1992, Douglas MacLean, Ethics and Biological Defense Research: “This kind of warfare [i.e., biological] would have us…”
Formed from immune + -ize
Proto-Indo-European *mey- ‘to attach, bind, strengthen’
…
Latin mūnus ‘service’
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnis ‘exempt from public service’
Middle French immun
English immune
Every English word from French immuniser
Today it means
verb To make someone or something immune to something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French immuniser / immunize