Etymograph

English

lapicide

Lapicide comes from Latin lapicida ‘a quarryman, stonecutter’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *lapets.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lapets‘stone’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElapis‘stone’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElapicida‘a quarryman, stonecutter’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1959lapicide

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lapets‘stone’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElapis‘stone’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElapicida‘a quarryman, stonecutter’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1959lapicide

Earliest quotation: 1959, British Institute of Archaeology at Anka: “One or two cracks in the rock have been…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *lep-

loupe

through Latin lapis ‘stone’

lapidary, 13 more

Today it means

noun A stonecutter.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *lapets / lapicide

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