Etymograph

English

laterite

Laterite comes from Latin later ‘brick’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElater‘brick’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1948laterite

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElater‘brick’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1948laterite

Earliest quotation: 1948, and October, The Gold Coast Railway—1: “Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent…”

Formed from -ite

Every English word from Latin later

Today it means

noun A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.

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Etymograph / Latin later / laterite

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