Etymograph

English

infima species

Infima species comes from Latin īnfimus ‘lowest’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰ-m̥mó-s.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)n̥dʰ-m̥mó-sHreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*enðemosreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfimusas infima‘lowest’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1993infima species

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)n̥dʰ-m̥mó-sHreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*enðemosreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfimusas infima‘lowest’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1993infima species

Earliest quotation: 1993, Willem Hirs, XV: The Use of Terminological Principles and Methods in Medi: “Every infima species of the adaptation can be related…”

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰ-m̥mó-s

Today it means

noun The narrowest of species; one that that is not a genus to anything else.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰ-m̥mó-s / infima species

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