English
ingress
Ingress comes from Latin ingressus ‘entered’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEingressus‘entered’
- Englishearliest quotation 1859ingress
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEingressus‘entered’
- Englishearliest quotation 1859ingress
Earliest quotation: 1859, Charles Dickens, In Secret: “Looking about him while in this state of suspense,…”
Every English word from Latin ingressus
Today it means
noun The act of entering.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ingressus / ingress