English
indiscrete
Indiscrete comes from Latin indiscrētus ‘unseparated’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindiscrētus‘unseparated’
- Englishearliest quotation 1670indiscrete
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindiscrētus‘unseparated’
- Englishearliest quotation 1670indiscrete
Earliest quotation: 1670, Henry Stubbe: “and amidst these perplexities I did resolve to proceed…”
Every English word from Latin indiscrētus
Today it means
adj Not discrete mathematically.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin indiscrētus / indiscrete