Etymograph

English

otiant

Otiant comes from Latin ōtior ‘be at ease, enjoy leisure’, and goes back to ōtium.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōtium‘leisure, free time’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEor
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōtior‘be at ease, enjoy leisure’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1855otiant

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōtium‘leisure, free time’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEor
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōtior‘be at ease, enjoy leisure’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1855otiant

Earliest quotation: 1855, David Tappan Stoddard, B. L. Hamlen: “Some letters are otiant in Modern Syriac, being generally,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew ‘off, away from’

nickname, autism, eke, 6 more

through Latin ōtium ‘leisure, free time’

negotiate, negotiator, 4 more

Today it means

adj At ease, at leisure; idling, indolent.

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

Etymograph / Latin ōtium / otiant

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