English
intervallum
Intervallum comes from Latin intervallum ‘interval, distance’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintervallum‘interval, distance’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1596–1599same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintervallum‘interval, distance’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1596–1599same form
Earliest quotation: c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.: “And a' shall laugh without intervallums.”
A compound of inter ‘between, among’ + vallum ‘wall, rampart, entrenchment’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’
Latin inter ‘between, among’
Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to roll, to undulate’
Proto-Italic *walso-
Latin vallum ‘wall, rampart, entrenchment’
Every English word from Latin intervallum
Today it means
noun An interval.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin intervallum / intervallum