Etymograph

English

intubate

From in- + tube + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Formed from in- + tube + -ate

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin tubus ‘tube, pipe’

Middle French tube ‘conduit; pipe’

English tube

The story

First appears c. 1612 in the publications of Simon Sturtevant.

Today it means

verb To insert a tube into.

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

Etymograph / intubate