Etymograph

English

minatory

Minatory comes from Late Latin minātōrius ‘threatening’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to think, mind’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*men-‘to think, mind’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*menāreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italic, derivedc. 1500–700 BCE*(eks)menāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEminae‘threats’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEminor‘threaten’
  6. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEminātōrius‘threatening’
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600minatoire
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1837minatory

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*men-‘to think, mind’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*menāreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italic, derivedc. 1500–700 BCE*(eks)menāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEminae‘threats’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEminor‘threaten’
  6. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEminātōrius‘threatening’
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600minatoire
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1837minatory

Earliest quotation: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, Usher Maillard: “[…]the Place de Grève, with its thirty thousand Regulars,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to think, mind’

money, music, amount, mind, comment, mental, mouth, mention, museum, remain, permanent, mountain, monster, mount, auto, monitor, monk, monetary, demonstration, monument, min, maya, dementia, monte, amnesty, muse, mosaic, summon, mentor, mas, mantra, mont, mania, mint, muster, monstrous, mandarin, amnesia, monastery, imminent, 125 more

through Latin minor ‘threaten’

minister, minor, menace, amenable, demean, 7 more

Today it means

adj Threatening, menacing.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *men- / minatory

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