English
secluse
Secluse comes from Latin sēclūsus ‘remote, secluded, isolated’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēclūsus‘remote, secluded, isolated’
- Englishearliest quotation 1605secluse
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēclūsus‘remote, secluded, isolated’
- Englishearliest quotation 1605secluse
Earliest quotation: 1605, Leonard Hutten, An Ansvvere to a Certaine Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme: “[…] or by removing the thing (if it be…”
Every English word from Latin sēclūsus
Today it means
adj Secluded.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sēclūsus / secluse