English
saccharinity
Saccharinity comes from Latin saccharon ‘a syrupy liquid that exudes from bamboo, a…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ ‘gravel’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorkeh₂‘gravel’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*ćárkaraHreconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*śárkaraHreconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEशर्क॑राśárkarā
- Palimodernsakkharā‘sugar’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσάκχαρsákkhar‘sugar’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaccharon‘a syrupy liquid that exudes from bamboo, a kind of sugar’
- New Latinmodernsaccharum
- English1500–presentsaccharine
- Englishearliest quotation 1844saccharinity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorkeh₂‘gravel’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*ćárkaraHreconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*śárkaraHreconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEशर्क॑राśárkarā
- Palimodernsakkharā‘sugar’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσάκχαρsákkhar‘sugar’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaccharon‘a syrupy liquid that exudes from bamboo, a kind of sugar’
- New Latinmodernsaccharum
- English1500–presentsaccharine
- Englishearliest quotation 1844saccharinity
Earliest quotation: 1844, The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, Dublin: A. Fullarton: “[Potatoes] are raised with studious attention to prolific varieties,…”
A compound of saccharine + -ity
New Latin saccharum ‘sugar’
English saccharine
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ ‘gravel’
through Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Today it means
noun The quality of being saccharine: (extreme or excessive) sweetness (literal and figurative senses).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ / saccharinity