Etymograph

English

insidiator

Insidiator comes from Latin īnsidiātor ‘lurker’, from īnsidior ‘to lie in wait, lurk’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sedéh₁yetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sedēō‘to sit, to be sitting, to be seated’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsedeō‘sit’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsideō‘to sit in, upon’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsidiae‘ambush, plot(s), snare(s)’
  7. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsidior‘to lie in wait, lurk’
  8. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsidiātor‘lurker’
  9. Englishearliest quotation a. 1678insidiator

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sedéh₁yetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sedēō‘to sit, to be sitting, to be seated’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsedeō‘sit’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsideō‘to sit in, upon’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsidiae‘ambush, plot(s), snare(s)’
  7. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsidior‘to lie in wait, lurk’
  8. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsidiātor‘lurker’
  9. Englishearliest quotation a. 1678insidiator

Earliest quotation: a. 1678, Isaac Barrow, (please specify the chapter name or sermon number): “many both open enemies and close insidiators; from whose…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

set, sell, method, chair, sit, seat, sitting, settle, nest, possess, niche, saddle, exodus, nye, subsidy, beset, prasad, soot, setter, cathode, anode, chaise, sate, salo, besiege, ersatz, polyhedron, nidal, nias, 80 more

through Proto-Italic *sedēō ‘to sit, to be sitting, to be seated’

possession, obsession, assessor, presidente, assize, 23 more

through Latin sedeō ‘sit’

president, size, session, resident, assess, siege, sedan, reside, sediment, residual, residue, sedentary, possessive, obsess, sedative, dissident, sedate, seance, séance, sessile, presidio, presidium, 27 more

Today it means

noun Someone who lies in ambush, or plots

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed- / insidiator

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