English
lapideous
Lapideous comes from Latin lapideus ‘stone(s)’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *lapets.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lapets‘stone’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElapis‘stone’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElapideus‘stone(s)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646lapideous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lapets‘stone’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElapis‘stone’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElapideus‘stone(s)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646lapideous
Earliest quotation: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a…”
Every English word from Proto-Italic *lapets
Today it means
adj Of the nature of stone; stony.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *lapets / lapideous