English
proportionate
Proportionate comes from Latin prōportiōnātus ‘proportioned, proportionate’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōportiōnātus‘proportioned, proportionate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1689proportionate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōportiōnātus‘proportioned, proportionate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1689proportionate
Earliest quotation: 1689, Two Treatises of Government: […]: “What is proportionate to his transgression.”
Every English word from Latin prōportiōnātus
Today it means
adj In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin prōportiōnātus / proportionate