English
juxtaposit
Juxtaposit comes from Latin iūxtāpōnō ‘I place side by side, I put next to each…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūxtāpōnō‘I place side by side, I put next to each other, I juxtapose’
- Englishearliest quotation 1713juxtaposit
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūxtāpōnō‘I place side by side, I put next to each other, I juxtapose’
- Englishearliest quotation 1713juxtaposit
Earliest quotation: 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology: Or: “In the whole Surface of an Ox's Crystalline, he…”
Every English word from Latin iūxtāpōnō
Today it means
verb To juxtapose.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin iūxtāpōnō / juxtaposit