English
osseous
Osseous comes from Latin osseus ‘bony, (attributive) bone’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃ésth₁‘bone’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEos‘bone’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEosseus‘bony, (attributive) bone’
- Englishearliest quotation 1900osseous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃ésth₁‘bone’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEos‘bone’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEosseus‘bony, (attributive) bone’
- Englishearliest quotation 1900osseous
Earliest quotation: 1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members: “One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ ‘bone’
through Latin os ‘bone’
Today it means
adj Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ / osseous