English
lubricous
Lubricous comes from Latin lūbricus ‘slippery’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElūbricus‘slippery’
- Englishearliest quotation 1820lubricous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElūbricus‘slippery’
- Englishearliest quotation 1820lubricous
Earliest quotation: 1820, Sophocles, Œdipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant. A Tragedy, in Two: “But my Leech—a leech / Fit to suck blood,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- ‘to slide, glide’
Today it means
adj Slimy to the touch.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lūbricus / lubricous