English
inveteration
Inveteration comes from Latin inveteratio.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinveteratio
- Englishearliest quotation 1649inveteration
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinveteratio
- Englishearliest quotation 1649inveteration
Earliest quotation: 1649, Thomas Johnson: “the inveteration or continuance of the morbiſick cauſ”.
Every English word from Latin inveteratio
Today it means
noun The act of making inveterate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin inveteratio / inveteration