English
inviscate
Inviscate comes from Latin inviscatus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinviscatus
- Englishearliest quotation 1650inviscate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinviscatus
- Englishearliest quotation 1650inviscate
Earliest quotation: 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “[…] withall its food being flies and such as…”
Every English word from Latin inviscatus
Today it means
verb To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin inviscatus / inviscate