English
magnificate
Magnificate comes from Latin magnificātus ‘prized, esteemed’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmagnificātus‘prized, esteemed’
- Englishearliest quotation 1601magnificate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmagnificātus‘prized, esteemed’
- Englishearliest quotation 1601magnificate
Earliest quotation: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […]: “[T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad…”
Every English word from Latin magnificātus
Today it means
verb To magnify or extol.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin magnificātus / magnificate