Etymograph

English

seditious

Seditious comes from Latin seditiosus ‘mutinous, seditious’, from sēditiō ‘uprising, strife’, and ultimately from eō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeō
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEitiō‘going’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēditiō‘uprising, strife’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEseditiosus‘mutinous, seditious’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600séditieux
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2010seditious

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeō
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEitiō‘going’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsēditiō‘uprising, strife’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEseditiosus‘mutinous, seditious’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600séditieux
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2010seditious

Earliest quotation: 2010, Jonathon Keats, Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technolog: “There may not be anything seditious about his music,…”

Linked words

through Latin eō

issue, initial, exit, ambient, trance, ambition, transient, obituary, ambitious, eyre, ambiance, transitory, transitive, praetorian, praetor, ambit, obit, 25 more

through Latin itiō ‘going’

transition, 1 more

Today it means

adj Of, related to, or being involved in sedition.

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

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