English
ingeminate
Ingeminate comes from Latin ingeminō ‘repeat, reiterate’, and goes back to geminus ‘twin’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgeminus‘twin’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgeminō‘double, repeat’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEingeminō‘repeat, reiterate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1638ingeminate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgeminus‘twin’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgeminō‘double, repeat’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEingeminō‘repeat, reiterate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1638ingeminate
Earliest quotation: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels: “we found a black pavillion; in it three old…”
Linked words
through Latin geminus ‘twin’
Today it means
verb To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin geminus / ingeminate