English
internection
Internection comes from Latin internectere ‘to bind together’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinternectere‘to bind together’
- Englishearliest quotation 1881internection
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinternectere‘to bind together’
- Englishearliest quotation 1881internection
Earliest quotation: 1881, Montrose A. Pallen, The Reparative Surgery of the Genital Tracts: “The faulty internections of the bladder, vagina, rectum, uterus,…”
A compound of inter ‘between’ + nectere ‘to fasten’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’
Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’
Latin inter ‘between’
Every English word from Latin internectere
Today it means
noun intimate connection
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin internectere / internection