English
profanation
Profanation comes from Latin profānō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprofānō
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprofanatioparticiple stem of profānō
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600prophanation
- Englishearliest quotation 1603profanation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprofānō
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprofanatioparticiple stem of profānō
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600prophanation
- Englishearliest quotation 1603profanation
Earliest quotation: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes […]: “those which mocke and condemne it, intend neverthelesse to…”
Equivalent to profane + -ation
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’
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Classical Latin fānum ‘temple’
Classical Latin profānus ‘not religious, unclean’
Middle French profane
Middle English prophane
English profane
Every English word from Latin profānō
Today it means
noun The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin profānō / profanation