English
lubricious
Lubricious comes from Latin lūbricus ‘slippery’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElūbricus‘slippery’
- Englishearliest quotation 1901lubricious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElūbricus‘slippery’
- Englishearliest quotation 1901lubricious
Earliest quotation: 1901, Calvin Thomas: “His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- ‘to slide, glide’
Today it means
adj Smooth and glassy; slippery.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lūbricus / lubricious