English
intervention
Intervention comes from Latin interventiō ‘guarantee, caution’, and goes back to interveniō ‘to intervene, come between’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterveniō‘to intervene, come between’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterventiō‘guarantee, caution’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600intervention
- Englishearliest quotation 1988same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterveniō‘to intervene, come between’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterventiō‘guarantee, caution’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600intervention
- Englishearliest quotation 1988same form
Earliest quotation: 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy: “As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer…”
Formed from intervene + -tion
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- ‘to come, to step’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti ‘to come’
Proto-Italic *gʷəniō ‘to come’
Latin veniō ‘come’
Latin interveniō ‘come between’
English intervene
Every English word from Latin interveniō
Today it means
noun The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin interveniō / intervention