English
irreptitious
Irreptitious comes from Latin irrēpō ‘I creep into’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p- ‘to take away, snatch’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁reh₁p-‘to take away, snatch’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rēpōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErēpō‘to creep, crawl’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEirrēpō‘I creep into’
- Englishearliest quotation 1872irreptitious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁reh₁p-‘to take away, snatch’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rēpōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErēpō‘to creep, crawl’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEirrēpō‘I creep into’
- Englishearliest quotation 1872irreptitious
Earliest quotation: 1872, us De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan: “equal generation in each irreptitious approximation”.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p- ‘to take away, snatch’
rape, rapid, grave, ravine, raptor, graf, rapture, reeve, rapt, rapacious, 13 more
through Latin rēpō ‘to creep, crawl’
Today it means
adj surreptitious; spurious
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p- / irreptitious