Etymograph

English

materiate

Materiate comes from Latin materiatus ‘having felled’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmateriatus‘having felled’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1627materiate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmateriatus‘having felled’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1627materiate

Earliest quotation: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “After long enquiry of things immersed in matter, to…”

Today it means

adj Consisting of matter; material.

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

Etymograph / Latin materiatus / materiate