English
segnity
Segnity comes from Latin segnitas ‘sluggishness, tardiness’, and goes back to segnis.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsegnis‘slow, sluggish’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsegnitas‘sluggishness, tardiness’
- Englishearliest quotation 1819segnity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsegnis‘slow, sluggish’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsegnitas‘sluggishness, tardiness’
- Englishearliest quotation 1819segnity
Earliest quotation: 1819, Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh: “The ancient laws of the drama were founded upon…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sek- ‘to coagulate, dry out’
saw, risk, design, ship, sex, sign, section, sexual, seal, sack, segment, scarlet, insect, sawyer, sax, sickle, het, shingle, scythe, dissect, sich, sigil, brassica, desiccation, sedge, sain, desiccant, seg, 61 more
Today it means
noun Sluggishness or inactivity.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin segnis / segnity