English
intersecant
Intersecant comes from Latin intersecans.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintersecans
- Englishearliest quotation 1833intersecant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintersecans
- Englishearliest quotation 1833intersecant
Earliest quotation: 1833, Silvester, For the Acadian Recorder: Trees: “To plant the sides of the intersecant roads of…”
Every English word from Latin intersecans
Today it means
adj Crossing, intersecting; (figuratively) clashing, conflicting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin intersecans / intersecant