English
lascivient
Lascivient comes from Latin lasciviens ‘frolicking’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElasciviens‘frolicking’
- Englishearliest quotation 1659lascivient
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElasciviens‘frolicking’
- Englishearliest quotation 1659lascivient
Earliest quotation: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul: “lascivient cruelty”.
Equivalent to lascīvus + -i- + -ent
Every English word from Latin lasciviens
Today it means
adj lascivious
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lasciviens / lascivient