English
inquinate
Inquinate comes from Latin inquinō ‘polluting’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinquinōas inquināre‘polluting’
- Englishtodayinquinate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinquinōas inquināre‘polluting’
- Englishtodayinquinate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyn- ‘to soil’
Today it means
verb To pollute or make dirty.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin inquinō / inquinate