English
impinguate
Impinguate comes from Latin impinguatus ‘fattened’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpinguatus‘fattened’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627impinguate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpinguatus‘fattened’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627impinguate
Earliest quotation: 1627, IX. Century.: “Frictions also do more fill and impinguate the body…”
A compound of impinguare ‘to fatten’ + pinguis ‘fat’
Proto-Indo-European *peyH- ‘fat’
Proto-Italic *pīngwis
Latin pinguis ‘fat, plump’
Latin impinguō ‘to fatten’
Proto-Indo-European *peyH- ‘fat’
Proto-Italic *pīngwis
Latin pinguis ‘fat’
Every English word from Latin impinguatus
Today it means
verb To fatten; to make fat.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin impinguatus / impinguate