English
imprudency
Imprudency comes from Latin imprūdēns ‘inadvertent, imprudent’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprūdēns‘inadvertent, imprudent’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprūdēntia
- Englishearliest quotation 1790imprudency
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprūdēns‘inadvertent, imprudent’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprūdēntia
- Englishearliest quotation 1790imprudency
Earliest quotation: 1790, Amelia Opie: “[T]he rival and the admirer would certainly avoid amending…”
Every English word from Latin imprūdēns
Today it means
noun The fact or quality of being imprudent; rashness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin imprūdēns / imprudency