Etymograph

English

incorruptibility

Incorruptibility comes from Latin incorruptibilitas ‘incorruptibility, imperishableness’, and goes back to corruptibilis ‘corruptible, perishable’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorruptibilis‘corruptible, perishable’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincorruptibilis‘incorruptible, imperishable’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincorruptibilitas‘incorruptibility, imperishableness’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1713incorruptibility

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorruptibilis‘corruptible, perishable’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincorruptibilis‘incorruptible, imperishable’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincorruptibilitas‘incorruptibility, imperishableness’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1713incorruptibility

Earliest quotation: 1713, George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous: “The Being of a God, and Incorruptibility of the…”

Linked words

through Latin corruptibilis ‘corruptible, perishable’

corruptible, 1 more

Today it means

noun The condition of being incorruptible; honesty.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin corruptibilis / incorruptibility

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