English
shingles
Shingles comes from Latin cingulum ‘girdle’, and goes back to cingō ‘to surround, encompass’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcingō‘to surround, encompass’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcingulum‘girdle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcingulusvariant of cingulum
- Englishearliest quotation 2005shingles
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcingō‘to surround, encompass’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcingulum‘girdle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcingulusvariant of cingulum
- Englishearliest quotation 2005shingles
Earliest quotation: 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon: “From the description, Letha felt sure Jane had herpes…”
Linked words
through Latin cingulum ‘girdle’
Today it means
noun Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cingō / shingles