English
propine
Propine comes from Latin propinō ‘to drink to someone's health, toast someone’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₃-‘to drink’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπῑ́νω‘to drink’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπροπῑ́νωpropī́nō‘to drink to someone's health’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpropinō‘to drink to someone's health, toast someone’
- Englishearliest quotation 1622propine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₃-‘to drink’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπῑ́νω‘to drink’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEπροπῑ́νωpropī́nō‘to drink to someone's health’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpropinō‘to drink to someone's health, toast someone’
- Englishearliest quotation 1622propine
Earliest quotation: 1622, Martin Fotherby: “we would propine, both our selues, and our cause,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- ‘to drink’
Today it means
verb To pledge; to offer as a toast in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- / propine