Etymograph

English

inosculate

Inosculate comes from Latin osculor ‘to kiss’, from ōs ‘mouth’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óh₃s‘mouth’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ōs‘mouth’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōs‘mouth’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōsculum‘a kiss’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEosculor‘to kiss’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1826inosculate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óh₃s‘mouth’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ōs‘mouth’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōs‘mouth’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōsculum‘a kiss’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEosculor‘to kiss’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1826inosculate

Earliest quotation: 1826, Survey of the River Sanloon: “The party left the town of Martaban on the…”

Formed from in- + osculate

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s ‘mouth’

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Latin ōs ‘mouth’

Latin ōsculum ‘a kiss’

Latin ōsculor ‘to kiss’

Latin ōsculātus ‘having kissed’

English osculate

first attested First attested in 1672 (as stated in the etymology)

The story

First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (‘to kiss’) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (‘a kiss’).

Linked words

through Latin ōs ‘mouth’

oral, os, regatta, 17 more

Today it means

verb To homogenize; to make continuous.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s / inosculate

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