English
innitency
Innitency comes from Latin innītor ‘to lean upon’, and goes back to nītor.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnītor
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinnītor‘to lean upon’
- Englishearliest quotation 1652innitency
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnītor
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinnītor‘to lean upon’
- Englishearliest quotation 1652innitency
Earliest quotation: 1652, Daniel Carwardine, London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell: “But such a Faith is required to bring us…”
Every English word from Latin nītor
Today it means
noun A burden; a dead weight.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin nītor / innitency