Etymograph

English

objurgate

Objurgate comes from Latin obiūrgātus ‘chided, scolded, having been rebuked’, from iūs ‘right, law’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEagō‘to pursue, discuss’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūs‘right, law’compounding form of agō
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūrgō‘dispute, chide’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEobiūrgō‘chide, scold’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEobiūrgātus‘chided, scolded, having been rebuked’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1886objurgate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEagō‘to pursue, discuss’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūs‘right, law’compounding form of agō
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūrgō‘dispute, chide’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEobiūrgō‘chide, scold’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEobiūrgātus‘chided, scolded, having been rebuked’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1886objurgate

Earliest quotation: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima: “He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel…”

The story

Borrowed from Latin obiūrgātus, perfect passive participle of obiūrgō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ob- (‘to, against’) + iūrgō (‘to dispute, chide’), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

suggest, reaction, register, strategy, actively, essay, transaction, acre, gesture, radioactive, digest, congestion, inactive, agony, antagonist, agrarian, belligerent, axiom, ingestion, retroactive, unambiguous, reagent, progesterone, hyperactivity, gestation, antagonism, agonist, ingest, antagonize, ambiguously, glucagon, agitate, agger, samaj, stratagem, agonize, gerund, gestion, 129 more

through Latin agō ‘to pursue, discuss’

act, action, active, agency, activity, actual, agent, actor, agenda, examine, examination, ambiguous, activate, enact, agile, ambiguity, agility, squat, assay, agitation, radium, cogent, actuator, actuation, inexact, exigent, redact, actuate, 96 more

through Latin iūs ‘right, law’

justice, judge, juice, judgment, judicial, judiciary, preach, prejudice, predicament, jus, predicate, judicious, adjudicate, judicature, 14 more

Today it means

verb To rebuke or scold strongly.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- / objurgate

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