Etymograph

English

incommodate

Incommodate comes from Latin incommodātus ‘inconvenienced’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEincommodātus‘inconvenienced’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1645incommodate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEincommodātus‘inconvenienced’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1645incommodate

Earliest quotation: 1645, Joseph Hall, A Treatise of Contentation in whatsoever Condition: […]: “[N]either knovv I vvhether it is more hard to…”

first attested First attested in 1575 (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in 1575; borrowed from Latin incommodātus, perfect passive participle of incommodō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Every English word from Latin incommodātus

Today it means

verb To incommode, make uncomfortable.

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Etymograph / Latin incommodātus / incommodate

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