English
inoculation
Inoculation comes from Latin inoculātio ‘inoculation, ingrafting’, from oculus ‘eye’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *okʷ(e)los.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*okʷ(e)losreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEoculus‘eye’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinoculō‘to ingraft an eye or bud of one tree into another, inoculate, graft by budding, implant’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinoculātio‘inoculation, ingrafting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837inoculation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*okʷ(e)losreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEoculus‘eye’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinoculō‘to ingraft an eye or bud of one tree into another, inoculate, graft by budding, implant’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinoculātio‘inoculation, ingrafting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837inoculation
Earliest quotation: 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The End: “We owe, also, to Lady Mary the introduction of…”
Formed from inoculate + -ion
Proto-Italic *okʷ(e)los
Latin oculus ‘eye’
Latin inoculō ‘to ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into…’
Latin inoculātus
Middle English inoculaten ‘to graft’
English inoculate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- ‘to see’
eye, anthropology, optics, ogle, awk, synoptic, anthropoid, 39 more
through Latin oculus ‘eye’
Today it means
noun The introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *okʷ(e)los / inoculation