English
implication
Implication comes from Latin implicātiōnem.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimplicātiōnem
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600implication
- Englishearliest quotation 2010implication
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimplicātiōnem
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600implication
- Englishearliest quotation 2010implication
Earliest quotation: 2010, Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney: “Dennis Reynolds: What do you mean what do we…”
A compound of plicō ‘to fold, bend or flex’ + implicō ‘to entangle, entwine’
Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to fold, plait, weave’
Latin plicō ‘to fold, bend or flex’
Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to fold, plait, weave’
Latin plicō ‘to fold, bend or flex’
Latin implicō ‘to entangle, entwine’
Every English word from Latin implicātiōnem
Today it means
noun The act of implicating.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin implicātiōnem / implication