English
lapidify
Lapidify comes from Latin lapis ‘stone’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *lapets.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lapets‘stone’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElapis‘stone’
- Englishearliest quotation 1958lapidify
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lapets‘stone’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElapis‘stone’
- Englishearliest quotation 1958lapidify
Earliest quotation: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy): “The rule of the Abang, in an age when…”
Formed from -ify
Every English word from Proto-Italic *lapets
Today it means
verb To become stone or stony.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *lapets / lapidify