English
impudency
Impudency comes from Latin impudēntia.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpudēntia
- Englishearliest quotation 1603impudency
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpudēntia
- Englishearliest quotation 1603impudency
Earliest quotation: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes […]: “There is nothing that I hate more then driving…”
Every English word from Latin impudēntia
Today it means
noun Impudence, insolence.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin impudēntia / impudency