English
liquescent
Liquescent comes from Latin liquēscēns ‘melting, liquefying’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEliquēscēns‘melting, liquefying’
- Englishearliest quotation 1758liquescent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEliquēscēns‘melting, liquefying’
- Englishearliest quotation 1758liquescent
Earliest quotation: 1758, William Borlase, Oxford: printed for the Author: “That this, as well as other clays, is streaked…”
Equivalent to liquesce + -ent
Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- ‘moist, to wet’
Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *(w)likʷēō
Latin liqueō ‘to be liquid, fluid’
Latin liquēscō ‘to melt, liquefy’
English liquesce
Every English word from Latin liquēscēns
Today it means
adj Melting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin liquēscēns / liquescent