Etymograph

English

reluctation

Reluctation comes from Late Latin reluctatio ‘resistance’, from Latin lū̆ctor ‘to struggle, strive, contend’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewg-‘to bend’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElū̆ctor‘to struggle, strive, contend’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErelū̆ctoras reluctārī, participle stem‘to resist’
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEreluctatio‘resistance’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1605reluctation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewg-‘to bend’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElū̆ctor‘to struggle, strive, contend’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErelū̆ctoras reluctārī, participle stem‘to resist’
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEreluctatio‘resistance’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1605reluctation

Earliest quotation: 1605, Francis Bacon, (please specify |book=1 or 2): “The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend’

lock, leek, loke, 17 more

Today it means

noun Resistance, struggle.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *lewg- / reluctation

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