English
quoddity
Quoddity comes from Latin quod ‘what’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquod‘what’
- Englishearliest quotation 1744quoddity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquod‘what’
- Englishearliest quotation 1744quoddity
Earliest quotation: 1744, A Dialogue Between the Rev. Mr. Jenkin E, London: M. Cooper: “They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the…”
Formed from quod ‘what’ + -ity
Every English word from Latin quod
Today it means
noun The individual identity of something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin quod / quoddity