English
obliquity
Obliquity comes from Latin oblīquitās ‘slant, obliqueness, obliquity’, and goes back to oblīquus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEoblīquus‘oblique’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEoblīquitās‘slant, obliqueness, obliquity’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600obliquité
- Englishearliest quotation 1667obliquity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEoblīquus‘oblique’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEoblīquitās‘slant, obliqueness, obliquity’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600obliquité
- Englishearliest quotation 1667obliquity
Earliest quotation: 1667, John Milton, (please specify the page number): “The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, /…”
Formed from oblique + -ity
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend’
Today it means
noun The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin oblīquus / obliquity