English
morpion
Morpion comes from Latin pedis ‘louse’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpedis‘louse’
- Englishearliest quotation 1662morpion
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpedis‘louse’
- Englishearliest quotation 1662morpion
Earliest quotation: 1662, [The First Part of Hudibras]: “His Flea, his Morpion, and Punese, He 'ad gotten…”
Linked words
through Latin pedis ‘louse’
peach, dispatch, expedition, expedite, pedantry, pedant, 14 more
Today it means
noun A louse.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pedis / morpion