Etymograph

English

juxtaposition

Juxtaposition comes from French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā ‘near’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yunégti ~ *yungénti.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yunégti ~ *yungéntireconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*jungō‘to join’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiungō‘to join’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiuxtā‘near’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentjuxtaposition
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1809juxtaposition

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yunégti ~ *yungéntireconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*jungō‘to join’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiungō‘to join’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiuxtā‘near’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentjuxtaposition
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1809juxtaposition

Earliest quotation: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *jungō ‘to join’

adjoining, joiner, disjoint, adjoint, enjoin, disjunction, 9 more

through Latin iungō ‘to join’

join, conjunction, junction, adjunct, junta, juncture, subjunctive, conjunct, 15 more

through Latin iuxtā ‘near’

just, joust, jostle, 3 more

Today it means

noun The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *yunégti ~ *yungénti / juxtaposition

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