English
instill
Instill comes from Latin instillō ‘to drop in’, and goes back to stīlla.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstīlla‘a drop of a dense, viscous liquid or other non-natural substance’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEstīllō‘to drip, drop, trickle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinstillō‘to drop in’
- Englishtodayinstill
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstīlla‘a drop of a dense, viscous liquid or other non-natural substance’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEstīllō‘to drip, drop, trickle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinstillō‘to drop in’
- Englishtodayinstill
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ster- ‘stiff’
start, street, strength, stronger, strongly, strongest, straw, stare, stern, cholesterol, stereo, throttle, torpedo, starve, sterile, strenuous, sterility, 16 more
through Latin stīllō ‘to drip, drop, trickle’
Today it means
verb To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin stīlla / instill