Etymograph

English

insuavity

Insuavity comes from Latin insuavitas.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinsuavitas
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1624insuavity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinsuavitas
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1624insuavity

Earliest quotation: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, įmbonities, insuavities, are swallowed…”

Formed from in- ‘not’ + suavity

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- ‘sweet’

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Latin suāvis ‘sweet’

Latin suāvitās ‘sweetness (of taste)’

Middle French suavité

Middle English suavite

English suavity

Every English word from Latin insuavitas

Today it means

noun Lack of suavity; unpleasantness.

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

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