Etymograph

English

omnifutuent

Omnifutuent comes from Latin futuēns ‘performing vaginal intercourse, having sex, in…’, and goes back to futuō ‘fuck’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfutuō‘fuck’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfutuēns‘performing vaginal intercourse, having sex, in the process of fucking’present participle of futuō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2015omnifutuent

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfutuō‘fuck’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfutuēns‘performing vaginal intercourse, having sex, in the process of fucking’present participle of futuō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2015omnifutuent

Earliest quotation: 2015, Marlene Wagman-Gellar, Behind Every Great Man: “Maria, like Laura, was “omnifutuent" (Huxley's word for bisexual)”.

Formed from omni-

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- ‘to work, toil, make’

Proto-Italic *opnis ‘every, all’

Latin omnis ‘all’

English omni-

The story

Likely influenced by words like omnipotent.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- ‘to hit’

big, beat, bold, bug, beam, beetle, bile, paddock, footer, beal, poutine, 5 more

Today it means

adj Bisexual.

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

Etymograph / Latin futuō / omnifutuent