Etymograph

English

marginate

Marginate comes from Latin marginātus ‘having a border or margin’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmarginātus‘having a border or margin’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1832marginate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmarginātus‘having a border or margin’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1832marginate

Earliest quotation: 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia:: “undulating lines marginated with pale, one on each side,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs ‘boundary, border’

march, mark, 8 more

through Latin margō ‘border’

marge, margo, 5 more

Today it means

adj With a well marked edge or margin.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin marginātus / marginate

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