English
procreant
Procreant comes from Latin procreans ‘begetting’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprocreans‘begetting’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1604procreant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprocreans‘begetting’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1604procreant
Earliest quotation: c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello: “Leave procreants alone, and ſhut the dore, / Coffe,…”
Every English word from Latin procreans
Today it means
adj That procreates.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin procreans / procreant