English
singult
Singult comes from Latin singultus ‘sobbing, speech interrupted by sobs’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsingultus‘sobbing, speech interrupted by sobs’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590singult
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsingultus‘sobbing, speech interrupted by sobs’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590singult
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto XI: “There an huge heape of singults did oppresse /…”
Every English word from Latin singultus
Today it means
noun A sob.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin singultus / singult