English
inundant
Inundant comes from Latin inundans ‘overflowing, inundating, flooding’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinundans‘overflowing, inundating, flooding’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1763inundant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinundans‘overflowing, inundating, flooding’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1763inundant
Earliest quotation: a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody: “Thy voice, hydropic Fancy! calls aloud For costly draughts,…”
Every English word from Latin inundans
Today it means
adj overflowing
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin inundans / inundant