Etymograph

English

intuse

Intuse comes from Latin intundere ‘to bruise’, from Proto-Italic *tundō ‘to beat, strike’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tunédti ‘to be pushing, hitting’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)tunédti‘to be pushing, hitting’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tundō‘to beat, strike’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtundōas tusum‘to beat, bruise’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEintundere‘to bruise’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1590intuse

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)tunédti‘to be pushing, hitting’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tundō‘to beat, strike’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtundōas tusum‘to beat, bruise’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEintundere‘to bruise’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1590intuse

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, (please specify the book), Canto V: “The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe, To…”

Linked words

through Latin tundō ‘to beat, bruise’

obtuse, contusion, 5 more

Today it means

noun A bruise; a contusion.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)tunédti / intuse

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