English
inceration
Inceration comes from Latin incerare ‘to smear with wax’, and goes back to cera.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcera‘wax’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcerare‘to wax’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincerare‘to smear with wax’
- Englishearliest quotation 1597inceration
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcera‘wax’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcerare‘to wax’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincerare‘to smear with wax’
- Englishearliest quotation 1597inceration
Earliest quotation: 1597, Roger Bacon: “Take therefore of the bones of Adam, and of…”
Linked words
through Latin cera ‘wax’
Today it means
noun ceration.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cera / inceration